Rosh Hashanah: Two Days or Too Dazed?

it doesn't make a lot of sense that we begin our year with Rosh Hashanah and then we go to Yom Kippur there's something off about the order here because if Rosh Hashanah it's a brand new year and it's a whole you know new reality why should we go into that new year in soiled garments why should we go into the air with like last year's clothes that need a serious wash shouldn't it be home Kipper first and then we go into Rosh Hashanah shouldn't we just clean off first and then begin our year fresh and clean like a little baby out of a bath so the reason is is because you know right after Yom Kippur you have a lot of clarity you're careful you know you're still realizing who the Melech is comes Kiss Live okay it's getting a little dark but you light the lights of Hanukkah and it like relights your Clarity on there being a Mech but as that year goes on like you skip further and further from the light the colder it gets and so you start to lose you lose a little Clarity you know after a while you instead of the crown being on God's head you start putting on your head you're going to look at what you want to look at and you're going to eat what you want to eat and you're gonna you know do what you want to do and so after a while you're kind of crowning yourself comes out a little where you know we start realizing oh my gosh there's a king and we start putting the crown on a shem's head and we crowned God over us and therefore I crown him over my eyes and I crown him over my mouth and I Crown them over my ears and I Crown them over my desires and I make Hashem the king and here comes Rosh Hashanah two days straight of like a major brainwash and it's like we don't stop for two days and what happens is during this process you suddenly realize oh my gosh there's a malach at that point you look back at your year and you're like starting to realize how far you've been from the King how far you were from avinu volcano if I were to ask you what you had done wrong in the middle of the Thomas you'd be like I don't know all kinds of things I don't remember why because after you do something wrong a few times or you're losing Clarity or you're losing your your convenience and dominating after a few times you forget all about it you just forget you're even doing that and so it's impossible to remember what went wrong but after a powerful day of clarity after Rosh Hashanah where you have this like giant wake up so in that giant wake up you're now you're now getting that Clarity and one of the ways that this is expressed is in in marriage is uh like for example um imagine imagine a man forgets to tell his wife that he's going to Las Vegas for a convention for three days you know so so at the end of the day realize wait I never called my wife and so he calls her and he says listen I'm so sorry I forgot to tell you but I'll be in Vegas for three days now he comes back after the three days and he what does he find he finds his bedroom door locked and you find some blanket and pillow on the couch he's gonna be there for a few days probably because until he can articulate the loss of clarity that what kind of what kind of man goes to Las Vegas for three days without telling his wife you know but that's where he was at because he had lost Clarity and it'll take him a few days to get the clarity of how much this relationship means to him and then he'll finally be able to say the words that will get him back into the bedroom and so it's similar with us it's with Hashem it's that we lose clarity throughout the year and then finally Russia comes with get the clarity and only with that Clarity can you properly look at yourself and say wow how far have I been and when you get that how far have I been from this awesome King who loves me so then you can do a proper juvenile on your Giver [Music]