Parshas Vayailech (5762)

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Parshas Vayailech (5762)
by Mordechai Dolinsky

The name of our parsha, VaYailech, as is very often, is extremely significant for our current time.

The depth of understanding Rosh Hashana is that as the year comes to its end the whole creation is released from its gear and it is again reset anew. This means that the mechanism that caused anything and everything to exist and function last year has completely terminated and is no longer in existence. The world as we observe it now is what it is because of special Divine Will; not because it continues on as we previously observed it. Sara Imainu wasn’t capable of childbearing—this was changed on Rosh Hashana. Being a classical example of this phenomenon is why this portion is read on that day. The name of our parsha accurately describes this—VAYAILECH—we move on to a new existence.

This actuality is not easy to perceive since generally speaking the creation as we see it mistakenly looks like a continuation, which it is not. The new existence is determined on Rosh Hashana, but for most of us the Heavenly decision is stretched over the ‘10 days of repentance’. These significant days should be understood as a stretched Rosh Hashana.

We should all be worthy to be able to fulfill our purpose in this world; amidst health, financial security, nachas and true simchas hachayim.

A wonderful Shabbos to you all.