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A tree gets its strength from what you can’t see.
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A tree gets its strength from what you can’t see. Its roots are hidden beneath the surface, but they’re what keep everything standing. Yom Kippur is about going beneath the surface too. Not who we appear to be, not what others see, but the roots of who we really are. That’s where our strength is.
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We're putting in new trees at Boca Raton
synagogue and watching them go in made
me think about the yam no rhyme. You
know, you see the trees above the
surface. They look beautiful. They're
going to sprout and they're going to
grow. But whether they're strong and
healthy, whether they can withstand a
storm is not about what you could see
above the ground. It's how deep the
roots go. It's how strong they are. Yam
is not only a time to change what people
see on the outside. How beautiful we
look. It's about deeper roots. Deeper
roots in Torah. Deeper roots in amuna.
Deeper roots in being our best selves.
So this year, like these trees, let's
not only grow taller, but let our roots
go even deeper.