How to Make the Most of Rosh Hashana

hi I'm from gold har and I just want to share one thought to help you focus and get the most of the day of Rosh Hashanah the two days of Hashanah you know we all know at the end of the day we are our choices the choices we make in life that's really us there's circumstances have even placed in the resources that we've been given the results of our choices what happens the impact those are all out of our control the end of the day we are choices how we responded in times of opportunity and how we responded when we were challenged but the fact of the matter is that our choices are defined by our context that we make them in if the context of our life is that I don't trust things don't work out it doesn't really make a difference anyway who cares about my life so then the choice we're going to make in that context are going to be dramatically different than the choice we make if we were to live in a context where wow I really make a difference wow I I can trust it's worth it the good I plant will be reaped somehow some way even I can't see it I know it's worth the investment that's a very different type of context to make your choices within so Rosh Hashanah is the day that we affirm that hey we got the greatest opportunity with God as our King the master of all existence we know he takes all our choices and all the good choices we make they're going to be seated into reality and they're gonna help sprout good things from the existence that he granted us whether we can see in the way we want to see it or in a different way but it's worth it and that's why Russia tion is so critical as we start the new year we want to choose what context of life do we want a choice they exist within and we want a world where every choice makes a difference and that's why the day that we crown the Almighty is king on Rosh Hashanah the first day of the year the first two days of the year it's actually in the Torah not called Rosh Hashanah the first of the year the head of the year it's actually called yama z quran it's the day of remembrance because ultimately God's world everything makes a difference and everything matters and therefore we should know that whether we were in what how we walk this earth this past year really did make a difference the almighty in terms of what he wants to be accomplished in the world so do we take big steps do we take proud steps do we take courageous steps or do we take steps backwards do we retreat did we hide or just not come over shale and whatever so youma Zika ruin Rosh Hashanah is the greatest opportunity to say hey this is the world I want I want you as our King the Almighty I want to live in a world where I know everything is consequential and that you are going to take what I sow and you're gonna make us all reap it in a good way in a healthy way and then we take the shofar the vessel by which we corn ate the almighty God and we blow deep from within because we all yearn more than our words can ever express our thoughts can ever articulate really deep down in our belly is our desire for that type of existence and that's what the Jewish people have always believed in year after year and that's why we're still around because we never give up knowing that our choices really are powerful meaningful consequential they make a difference and they make the world move forward and altima bring the light to the world that we need to bring so we should all take ownership of this day making almighty our king your king maker choice is real because they will be remembered and when we listen to the person blow the shofar in the synagogue wherever we might be we should all deep within desire and yearn for oh we deeply want all along to live in such a life in such a world and then truly we will have a very blessed New Year Shanah Tovah may we all be signed and sealed in the book of life