Be the Head: What We Really Ask For on Rosh Hashanah | Rabbi Yaniv Meirov

As we all know, there's a rule, and that is too many chefs in the kitchen will ruin the food. Because you have to have one person in charge, and everybody else has to follow the orders. If you have too many >> [music] >> people in charge, it becomes a ballet gone, and it becomes a little bit of a mess. Same thing with communities, [music] you know, and and throughout the world. The Hakhamim also tell this tells us there has to be some sort of a system. There has to be some sort of organization. We see this with none other with Moshe Rabbeinu. He threw his father-in-law told him the points of delegation. Yes, you're the leader. You're Moshe Rabbeinu, but you have to have people under you as well. You You know, a king he's not a king if he doesn't have his constituents, his people, his members of the community. But there's a very interesting concept on Rosh Hashanah. And that is that we have different symbols, and one of the symbols that we eat during the meal is the head of a sheep or or or a fish or whatever it may be. And it says the following verse. We say, "She niyeh la rosh ve lo le zanav." That we should be the head, but we shouldn't be the tail. All of Am Yisrael, all the Jewish people are saying this line. She niyeh la rosh ve lo le zanav. They're all going to be the head and not the tail. But if everyone's the head, who's the who's following the leader? If everyone's the leader. But I heard once a beautiful chiddush, a beautiful insight. And it doesn't mean that every single one of us should be a leader. You know what she niyeh la rosh ve lo le zanav la rosh stands for the following. La asot ratzon Avinu she ba shamayim. That we should do the will of our Father in Heaven. That is what true leadership is. It's doing what God wants. Not that we're going to be leaders, we're going to be ambassadors. Hakadosh Baruch Hu, as we know on Rosh Hashanah, we're mamlich, we crown who? God Almighty. And this is what every single one of us should be doing. We should do the will of our Father in Heaven. We should follow Torah, we should follow mitzvot, we have to do maasim tovim, good deeds. We have to push ourselves and encourage ourselves, our family members, our friends, our neighbors. And the more we do so Hashem, with God's help, the more we'll see more blessings. Because there's a rule, when you do good, it will be good. So, the more you do good, the more it will be good. God bless you.