Below is teaching of Chaplain (Rabbi to be) Adam Ruditsky in conjunction with the book Preparing for the High Holidays
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רפואה מן התורה
If I had not believed to look upon the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living!
The Prophet Isaiah writes, “the dead
cannot praise you; they
cannot raise their voices in praise. Those who go down
to the grave can no longer hope in your
faithfulness. Only the living can praise you as I
do today. Each generation tells of your faithfulness to the
next. Think of it—the Lord is ready to
heal me! I will sing his praises with instruments
every day of my life in the Temple of
the Lord.” To put is succinctly, if you are dead you
cannot enjoy what it means to be alive, but if you are alive you need to be
healed. As we have been saying all along,
we are people in process, we need to grow and become, we need to heal and overcome to reach our best. Torah helps that part of the
human journey by acting as a fence, something we also we spoke about once
before (Avot 1:1). A fence serves two
purposes; to protect and to separate. The
fence that sets boundaries for how we conduct ourselves also allows our inner
spirit to corral the benefits gained. How we behave has a great deal to do with how we heal. How we heal begins by knowing that
we need to heal in the first place. We
are a just a few days away from our celebration of Rosh Hashanah, have we found the tikkun (repair) we need?
Healing begins when acknowledge that
we are broken
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