The sleeping pill I took last night was really powerful. Like it kept me asleep for almost 24 hours. I took it at 9pm last night and woke up only for lunch and dinner today.
Today we reflected on Yom Kippur that will be celebrated on Saturday. We discussed the last parsha (Torah) reading of the Synagogue before the readings begin again with Genesis 1:1 after Simhat Torah (last day of Sukkot next week). And some think the rabbi's sermon was touching and asked for it to be put on the blog. So here it is. It discusses Deut. 34:12 and relates to Moses breaking the 1st set of covenant and then making a 2nd set for the Israelites on Mt. Sinai. Here's the last part of the sermon by Rabbi Freeman.
... Once the people [Israelites] had achieved forgiveness and atonement for their failure, Moses was told to carve a second set of tablets. These were not the work of G-d, as the first ones. Rather, they were the achievement of human work. They were merited through the repentance of the people and the stubborn pleading of Moses. These remained whole.
Both the second, whole tablets and the original, broken ones were placed together in the Ark. So too, in the Ark of your heart lie two sets of tablets, one broken and one whole. After all, when you find the Infinite, where will you put it? In your broken vessel? It will not stay. In a new, whole one? It will not fit.
So you allow your heart to feel broken in bitterness for its confines. And yet it is whole in the joy of a boundless soul.
And if you should say, "But it is impossible! It is beyond the capacity of a created being to be both something and nothing at once." You are right. It is impossible. That is precisely the advantage that Man holds over the angels: Only the human heart can be broken and whole at once. That is why G-d created you. To join heaven and earth. Nothingness and Being. To make the impossible real.
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