Nourishing the Heart and Soul
Knowing that Rosh Hashanah is critical is the easy part. Feeling it is harder. So Rabbi Asaf Prisman sets aside his usual questions and answers and shares stories instead. A talmid of the Vilna Gaon is crossing the sea toward Eretz Yisrael a week before Rosh Hashanah when a storm hits, and he asks the passengers for something nobody expects. What did people like that feel that we struggle to feel? And why does Hashem judge us by who we are on that very day, and not by who we were last year?