Hashem Gave You a Clean Slate. What Will You Do With It? | Rabbi Rakhmin Dodobayev

The month of Tishrei is the month of holy holidays, high holidays. Which was Rosh Hashanah, which was Asseret Yemei Teshuvah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hoshana Rabbah, Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, and until the month of the end of the month of Tishrei, we don't say the Selichot. We're being happy because we are all tahor, we're all holy, and we are all cleaned up from our mistakes. Now, the Torah tells us, "Hold that pureness into yourself." How can you hold the pureness? You could only hold this pureness from not to say lashon hara, not to get angry, not to go into the conflicts with people, to be careful when you say the brachot when you eat, before and after. That's what the holiness for the entire year. When we are very careful in those specific small things that in our life always being connected with us, you're going to see more pureness in your life. You're going to feel the kedusha. We all want to feel the kedusha, and all comes from our good deeds. It comes from our prayers. And HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave us a new list, and he says, "It's all clean. Now, I'm going to write all the mitzvot that you're supposed to do." We Hashem gave us a new chance. How was our last year? We know it. But this coming year, 5787, nobody knows how it's going to be. And may Hashem help us with this year to do only mitzvot, masim tovim, to learn more Torah, and to come close to Hashem. May Hashem give us a long life. Besurot tovot, tovim, besevrot zechuyot, besever parnassat tovah, besever refuah shleimah, geulah shleimah bekarov. Vechein yehi ratzon venomar, amen.