Rabbi Yakov Danishefsky

When we think of lol and leading up to rashan kipper, one of the parts of the davenining that people's minds jump to uh is nisan tokan tok which talks about you know who's going to live and who's going to die and all the different uh decisions that will be made for the year. And it's a it's a it's a part of the tila that people often relate to with a lot of trepidation, a lot of fear, and it can invoke a lot of those kinds of feelings, which has its place and is is not something that we're we're throwing out completely. But I think that in a certain sense, when we experience it in that way, we're actually missing the entire upshot of what Unosanto is. Because if you read the entirety of unis, the whole point of the is to lead up in this crescendo into this this this this final moment of saying that yes on this day something powerful is happening and being decided but that whatever is being decided can be completely changed because of three things chuva and sedaka. And these are actually three simple things. Chuva, open up chuva. It's it's work. It's real. It has to be sincere, but it's it's simple. A person can open their mouth and they can davin. And sedaka, a person can givea. And the whole point is that this day where everything is happening, we can we can change all of it because Hashem wants it to be good for us. Hashem is looking to make it good for us and therefore he's completely open to our chuva, our and our so he's looking at us to give us the most favorable thing in the world. He's looking to bestow all bestow all of his love and all of his goodness on us. And he's not saying that you need to fast for 40 days and you need to finish shas and you need to he's saying dova davin give saddaka and all of it can be changed all for your best.