Look at you. You made it.

Look at you, you made it. The last Shabbos before Rosh Hashanah and the Torah opens with these three words, Atem Nitavim Kulchem. You are all standing here today. Not the perfect ones, not the ones who had an easy year. Kulchem, all of you. Including the broken ones, the struggling ones. The ones who fought the same battle for the hundredth time. The ones carrying something right now that nobody in the world knows about. You are still standing. The Baal Shem Tov teaches that the word Nitavim doesn't just mean standing. It means standing firm, rooted, unshaken. Not because the year was easy, but because you are still here despite the fact that it wasn't. Vayeilech, and he went. On the last day of his life, Moshe Rabbeinu got up and went. [music] He kept moving. Not because everything was resolved, but because that is what we do. We stand and then we go. Hashem is not looking at your year and asking why you fell. He's [music] looking at the fact that you are standing, Nitavim. Still here, still reaching. And he is saying, Azi vezimrat Kah. I was your strength all along and I am not not done with you yet. You are still standing and have so much more to accomplish. And I will [music] stay by your side as you keep on moving. This is Turning the Wheel, because the road to healing isn't straight, but no one should have to travel it alone. Wishing you a wonderful Shabbos >> [music] >> and a Ksiva v'Chasima Tova. And may this year be a year of new, >> [music] >> fresh beginnings. >> I will leave the [singing] light on. >> [singing]