Rosh HaShana vs Yom Kippur - Tehila Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

hi guys I hope you're all doing well we are really ramping it up now wrapping up a little coming up on Rosh Hashanah and we had such a lovely Shabbat yesterday and we were lucky enough to have Ari and Shayna come over and Ari raised such a thought-provoking and interesting question I thought I would bring it up here with you guys as well so Ari please correct me if I'm botching your question but this is at least how I understood it what is up with the difference between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur seemingly these are both days where we say Hashem is judging us Hashem is deciding what's going to happen next year now Yom Kippur we can kind of wrap our minds around because we spend the whole day hitting our chests and saying all the things that we've done wrong and really uh focusing on doing chuva on Rosh Hashanah we're also told that this is a day rashan is deciding what's going to happen to us next year you know looking Pat at our you know sins and we're thinking about all this and after you know starting you know the process of chuva and ello why is it that on first of all why do we need all of these days why not just get it over with in one grand terrifying trial where Hashem decides what's happening to us and why is it on Rosh Hashanah that we don't do any type of admission of sin none of the prayers are talking about our sins we're not thinking about examining our actions we're hearing the shofar we're talking about hashem's kingship in the world what is up with it why are if these if these days are doing the same thing then why don't we just have one and if they're if we need more than one day why are the prayers and the the internal works of these days so different so the way I understand this really comes I draw on my practice of law to kind of make sense of this anybody who you know who's uh uh you know dealt with the legal system knows that in a criminal trial you always have two stages in Hebrew we would call it the and the gzardine in English you would call it the verdict and the sentencing they're not the same we kind of imagine somebody going to court and going to trial and you know being tried and that's just sort of one blob but it's not one blob there are two distinct parts now what happens in the first part of any trial those of you who had jury duty you know surely are familiar with this on the first part of the trial it has nothing to do with what kind of person you are did you do the crime is there evidence are there Witnesses is there a videotape is there forensic uh you know uh evidence of this crime and the judge or the jury they hear the evidence and decide what was the actual reality of what happened now either you did it or you didn't and if you're found guilty that is the verdict this is what happened you did this thing period end of story you might be really nice it might be a jerk doesn't make a difference you did it period now there comes a second stage it usually happens on a totally different day this is not in the same trial then you have another hearing on sentencing a sentencing trial Works totally different you don't hear evidence about what happened you don't hear Witnesses about what happened you hear character testimony character testimony is a whole other ballpark you might bring your first grade teacher to talk about what a great kid you are you might bring your therapist to talk about uh all the internal work you've been doing to try to stop doing that type of crime you can bring somebody to testify about all the other nice things you do or maybe a letter that you wrote to the victim to show how remorseful you are those things become relevant only in sentencing so the way I look at it is that we have Rosh Hashanah and we have Yom Kippur Russia Sana our Chupa is not the story here the question is what have you done in this past year and it's not always an easy mirror to look into it's real it's real and we are taking this time and looking back at the year and taking honest stock of what happened where did I fail where did I make it where was I good where was I bad and it's not pretty it's not easy but it's the truth and that is what we do on Rosh Hashanah and that is why all of our prayers they're not about oh I'm so sorry and I'm going to try to be better put that aside that's not the issue right now we have three main motifs on Rosh Hashanah kingship of Hashem memories and hearing the shofar all of those really in my mind speak to this same idea Hashem as the king Hashem as the ultimate judge who knows what happened right and there's the shofar where we're declaring our recognition of that kingship and memories Hashem opening up the you know metaphoric book of history of memories and looking back at what we did and US looking along with him honestly at what we did in the past year and that's that day it's a serious thing then there's Yom Kippur Yom Kippur is something that can only come after that after Hashem has taken stock of our past year we've taken stock of our past year without whitewashing it with well all my promises for the future and all my other good things we've done the real hard look then comes Yom Kippur in my mind that's a sentencing trial that's where you bring character Witnesses you know let's say a guy was uh you know convicted of a DUI driving under the influence of alcohol it doesn't matter if he's nice or not breathalyzer was he drunk or was he not drunk now once we know that well now let's bring our character Witnesses has he gone to rehab has he apologized to the people he hurt has he made an effort to stay sober that's the Yom Kippur Yom kippurs are we say Hashem I'm so sorry I'm so sorry look at the chuva I've been doing for elu look at everything else I've done look at my good intentions for this coming year and take that into consideration when you decide how to respond to the truth of my last year so I think that's kind of the order that we see in real life trials and the order that is the sort of underlying wisdom of these special days Jeremy brought a great uh uh explanation from he taught me that maimonides says he uses the word for this means editing it's like a director saying cut you know the sometimes you know the movie can go on forever but the director has to say cut now we're editing this Rosh Hashanah is our time to look at the footage that we've gotten over the last year and Yom Kippur is when we get a chance to do the editing okay well what are we going to change how are we going to make this better so I think it's an important thing to understand how this kind of guides Us in where we're going to focus our prayers and focus our work of these days and it shows us that these you know the the books of the prayers the Liturgy that we have is not just you know liturgy that was thrown together but there's a really deep wisdom here showing us the chronological process that we need to go through coming in on the new year so I hope that's helpful to you guys in the work that we're 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