Bringing Hashem Into The Field - Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein

pretty soon we are going to be commemorating experiencing and rejoicing on the jewish new year rosh hashanah what does rosh hashanah refer back to most know that it means the beginning of the new year going back to the creation of the world but that's imprecise the world was actually created on the 25th of el and rosh hashanah is actually the sixth day of creation the day of creation of man i remember as a child i read in a fantastic introduction to one of the masaorim of rosh hashanah that the reason why rosh hashanah commemorates the day that man was created not the first day the world was created is because god needed people needed subjects god is not a ruler he is a benevolent king a moshell a ruler doesn't need subjects a melech a king that is chosen by the people with love the king without subjects is not really a king the khazal tell us that the job our job on rosh hashanah our role on rosh hashanah is to accept god and our as our king when i was a child then i read that it made a lot of sense and i understood that when we chant in shul in synagogue hamelech i understood it from my simplistic perspective that now god had a people god was now a king with a people but as i got older i realized that this idea from the villenegon is much deeper than my childish perspective and i think there are many who become paralyzed or don't accomplish what they can a if they don't understand what rosh hashanah is about and don't even know this idea that rosh hashanah corresponds to the sixth day of creation but b even if they understand that rosh hashanah is about creating a kingdom for god what is what does it mean to create god's kingdom as a child i thought it meant subjugating ourselves but there's really a lot more that's happened [Music] many holy esoteric jewish works emphasize that god's manifestation in this world is dependent on us we bring godliness into the world what is more godly than the soul that is breathed into other on the day of his creation that we commemorate that we have inside of ourselves we could bring more materialism into the world more selfish financially focused goals into the world we could focus on feeding our stomach and feeding our other urges or we could focus on another part of ourselves our neshama our soul and we could focus on sharing our soul with others that that is what our rabbis teach us that the role of rosh hashanah is to make god our king because he needs us not simply for us to stand in shul and proclaim it as a king but for us to bring the king into the field for us to bring godliness into the world the time prior to rosh hashanah the time of eloh is referred to by the balatanya the great first lubavitcher rebbe as a time of the king being in the field once upon a time i thought that it meant that the king can be found in the field but maybe it also means that we're supposed to bring the king into all parts of the field into all parts of god's world and in that way we'll truly make hashem our