Coming Home From Our Spiritual Rehab - Rabbi Mordechai Burg

one of the most beautiful parts of the yum tava sukkas and there are so many beautiful parts the simcha special sitting in the circle with our family singing zemiros eating delicious food to serve akades baruch one of the most beautiful parts of sukhos is the ushbizen we're visited by our holy avos in the sukkah what's the significance of the ushpis and why now we don't have ushbizen we don't have so why now why on the other success are we visited by such holy people our ancestors why now sort of pinkus explained so beautifully he said imagine you have an addict the addict mamish wreaked havoc on his life and on the lives of people around him and he went to rehab he realized he hit rock bottom he needed to get help so the addict went to rehab and he did all the hard work he went through a 12-step program and he got honest and he made amends he did amazing work and now he's invited back home to be with his children to be with his wife to be with his community rivpinkus says if he goes back to his old friends there's no way his sobriety is going to last it would be impossible imagine a person who let's say struggles with alcohol abuse everyone around them is drinking all the time inappropriately there's no way they're going to be able to be sober so too cesar of pink is us we just went through a spiritual rehab of sorts rosh hashanah yom kippur we crown that king we turn our will and our lives over to you we made amends we said i'm sorry to account we got honest we recognized the pain and the damage that we had caused we did a step nine so to speak now we're invited home the sukkah is i called the sparco's home and we're invited home but if we all go back to our old friends it's not going to last so akadeshwar who says be friends with ushbizen connect to a new chevra and then the spiritual truva that you did will last in this time it's so important for us to be linked back to the mesora and when i say mesora i'm not here speaking about a particular way of living life the confrontations with modernity and how we negotiate with the state of israel that's not what i'm referring to i'm referring to the mesorah of the spiritual dna that's inside of us inside of us we have an avram yakov these powers live inside of us it's hard to go through yom kippur and to say look at all the aviras that i've done it's hard to be honest it's important not to define ourselves by our worst moments it's important not to say this is who i am who we really are are people that have the ushbizen living inside of us in this way we can become friends so to speak with you and we can be visited by the usher and then god willing to take the ushpison with us after success back into the darkness of the winter but to know that we are spiritually sound we are okay we are forever connected to the eternal light of aquarco