Rosh Hashanah: Facing Judgment Day With Trust | Rabbi Yaniv Meirov

What should our attitude be on Rosh Hashanah, the new year? Should we be worried? Should we scared? It's judgement day. I know a lot of people and people actually come over to me once in a while and they open up to me. You know, I have a court case. I'm going being judged. I'm going to this situation. And these individuals are very very affluent and important people. And you see something unbelievable. And that is that they're scared. They're worried. You see it in their eyes. You see it in their You hear it with their voices. And what should our attitude be on judgement day? Rosh Hashanah is the day of judgement. And the Hachamim tell something interesting. The Halacha actually says that a person should go into the holiday wearing freshly laundered clothes. He should go and get a haircut erev Rosh Hashanah. A person should set up a meal, a beautiful table with foods and and and as much as possible. And in the shul in the synagogue, we sing melodies, songs together with the tfilot, with the prayers. So in essence, what is this coming to tell us? What's our attitude for Rosh Hashanah? It should be an attitude of positivity. We're boteach, we believe and trust in Baruch Hashem, in God Almighty, that we're going to have a good judgement. In Judaism, we're very very big into positivity. >> [music] >> And that's in essence what it is. Rosh Hashanah is Rosh, is the head. The beginning [music] is the head, is the mind for the beginning of the year. What should we do? We should have a positive mindset. We should think good. Like the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the previous one said something very powerful. If you think good, you know what will happen? It's going to be good. So let's start thinking positive. Let's start thinking good. And be ezrat Hashem, this Rosh Hashanah should be shana tova u'metuka, an amazing sweet new year filled with blessings and goodness for us and our families and all of Am Yisrael. And be ezrat Hashem, we should be zocheh to have the geulah shleimah, the complete redemption, which should come bemihֲerah beyameinu these days. [music] Amen ve'amen.