Hoshana Rabbah: The Last Chance to Change the Decree | Rabbi Yosef Benyaminov

Hoshanah Rabbah, we hear about this everywhere. Hoshanah Rabbah, Hoshanah Rabbah, what is the holiday really mean? Is it really a holiday? Well, the sages tell us what happens. The ketiva, the writing for people happens on Rosh Hashanah. The seal stamp happens on Yom Kippur. And Hoshanah Rabbah, Hashem sends out the pitakim, the the the letters, the tickets to all over the world. Whatever whoever sealed for whatever the life they're going to have this year, that's what happens on Hoshanah Rabbah. So, we say Hoshanah Rabbah really it means great salvation. It's the last opportunity to do teshuvah, to repent, find Hashem, to get the that ticket back, to to change God's mind, so to say. And Hoshanah Rabbah is which day? It is the 51st day from Elul. Which is why we say Ana Hashem Hoshiana. Please Hashem, save us. Na, what is na? Nun aleph is gematria, numerical value of 51. Save us. Please. Na means please. Also means now. Also means on the 51st day. It's our last opportunity. See, it's amazing thing. God always gives us another chance. Hashem loves us so much, like a father to his son, doesn't punish his son right away. He gives him a chance, and another chance, and another chance. This is the the greatest thing that God does for the Jewish people. They He wants us to understand that only if we did something wrong. He wants us to do teshuvah, to repent, to come back to us and say, "Look, I've given one opportunity. You messed it up. Here's another one. And here's another one." That's why we circle the Torah Torah seven times. It represents the the seven days of the week that we might have not done so well. Right? And we what we circle around the Torah tells us, "You know why we didn't do well? Because we weren't so close to the Torah. Now we circle the Torah so we're going to go around with your Torah. We're going to go with it. We're not going to lose sight of it. We're going to circle it again and again and again to show you that we want to be close to you. That's what Hoshana Rabbah is all about.