It’s been 20 years! But not much has changed! - Rabbi Shlomo Landau

i vividly remember two decades ago twenty years ago about two weeks before the yamam narayan it was going to be the first yom kippur shannon kippur that we were going to be doing in our community for people who are not so connected or not so affiliated the hamoin and i remember trying to come up with the appropriate material to impress upon the beginners the unaffiliated the importance of realizing this the severity of the din that the reboundstream was literally judging every single person for him and mavis for life and the opposite for health and for parnassa and i was trying to come up with the right stories and the right messages that would resonate with them and hopefully be mirror them arouse them to chuva to do some serious personal reflection with the hope that they would use rosh hashanim kippur as a stepping stone to getting towards some type of commitment towards torah and mitzvas and i remember racking my brain and speaking to different people what could i say what shouldn't i say and then not long before yemen rum all of a sudden everything changed we all know those of us that are old enough where we were that moment that the plane hit the first tower in the second tower and we know how every life changed forever on that incredible day 20 years ago on 9 11. and i remember getting up there we did our sonium kippur davening in a playhouse and being on stage and that yes there were things i said and yes there were things that i didn't say but regardless of what i remember that probably the single most impactful moment of the young naurum was nisana taikaf i didn't have to give a large description i didn't have to try to say stories to get people motivated all i had to do was translate the words of nisana taikif barasha shanayi kaseyvon it's written on yom kippur ubha and i began who will live and who will die and around the room one began to hear whimpers and sniffles who by fire and who by water and more people got emotionally involved who will choke to death how many people choked to death on that day how many people fell or jumped to their death mia who will feel tranquility who will feel safety who will feel comfort and remember there was such an aura of connection and of chuva and just the seriousness of the day of rash hashaniyam kippur two decades ago the truth is that when we look at the rear view mirror of 5781 the words of nisana taketh are more important and more pertinent than they ever were there are things in me in the santa takef that we never related to that were never connected to us that all of a sudden have much more meaning who by plague play [Music] how many people suffocated to death me how many people collapsed both in surfside and the bleacher collapse in eretz israel situations that are just not normal words that when we said meant nothing to us and all of a sudden this rash has shunned shim kipper repunish them we say them and we can identify with them and they're real and they touch us scary stuff but we need to remember that the end of nisana taketh every year is exactly the same that there's only one way to get rid of the gezard in the evil decree teshuva some type of kabbalah some type of shiva when it comes to repairing the relationship with ourselves our meet us our self-control to feel of the relationship with the rabbani shalom improving the relationship with others there are those have the power to take the evil of the decree this young kipper when we stand before the rabbi shalom let's take the words to heart let's commit to making serious improvement and the baseline will say of course my viewers are i will remove the evil of the decree and each and every one of us will have the gemara simativa an amazing upcoming year of all the brachas that the reboundishland was longing to shower on us