Below is the teaching of Chaplain (soon to be Rabbi) Adam Ruditsky in conjunction with the book Preparing yourself for the High Holidays.
רפואה מן התורה
And now I
will lift up my hands … and I will offer sacrifices in your tabernacle with
sounds of trumpets … I will sing praises to the Lord (Ps. 27:6)
Holiness is something
that we have more control over than spirituality. How? Spirituality is a belief or a feeling, things
that are more intangible than anything else.
In other words, how we feel about our sense of spirituality can change
daily. Holiness is about how we behave and conduct ourselves in all aspects of
life, personal and/or professional.
Doing the right thing or acting in the right way is like muscle-memory,
it is behaviors that are not based on how we feel but what we know are right. But spirituality, our faith and convictions,
through the mundane nature of our daily behaviors, will rise to the top and
reveal itself to us, seeing God in the backdrop of our actions and their
rewards. When that happens we see God, we experience that sense of “other,”
which in turn has the power to allow us raise our hearts in the sacrifice of
thanksgiving to the Lord. Sacred moments in life are personal alters we erect along the journey.
Spiritual
moments contain eternity
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