What Now - Rabbi Yisrael Feld

have you ever had that what now feeling after a big event you're anticipating you're looking forward to you're excited and it comes and goes and maybe it was amazing but what now in judaism we're not supposed to have big events and feel what now and just let it pass by we're supposed to gather those events and change our lives from them we just went through a long period of spheres omer and obviously the culmination of it all was shavuous but what now what are we doing after we received the torah to change our lives forever is known as the holiday of plan of harvesting and of course harvesting is so important right before able to gather it and bring it to our house but our job now is to gather up everything we harvest is to take all the messages all the growth that we've had over serious old mare and of course stay up all night and learning spew at night and bring it in which is why the next big holiday on the jewish calendar is going to be sukis the holiday of gathering because between now and sukis our job is to gather all that we have harvest and that should be our mindset is how do we take the things that we've been working up to all the messages that we've heard and obviously that receiving the actual torah and making who we are change who we are as a person the way i like to view it is some people live their life as playing a big game of monopoly let's say you start off as the hat you go around the board throughout the game and you got a lot of money in houses and hotels and at the end of the game you might have acquired a lot but it's the same hat there's a lot of people go around life they acquire a lot of information and moments but unless it affects them they don't change who they are as a person and our job is to allow these moments to change we are as a person and it falls at a beautiful time in the year at the end of the school year you shoot a seminary or even at work where things are a little bit lighter sometimes in the summer now is the time to go out and say how am i changing it take all that we've learned through the year and make it a reality to change who we are go out and practice that which we learned so let's make sure we're going and thinking what now and when it comes to sukkas we should feel like we've gathered all of that everyone have a fantastic day