The Importance of Being Together on Rosh Hashanah

Insights into Rosh Hashanah. With Karen Berg. The importance of being together on Rosh Hashanah. Mom, why did you decide to gather everyone to come to Rosh Hashanah, as opposed to other times or why is it important to be together? Rosh Hashanah is when we are condemned or granted freedom for our life for an entire year. So there's no greater time to be together than when people have a difficulty. That's when friends gather, relatives gather, loved ones gather together. And hopefully that gathering all our prayers will go together and will allow us to reach a place, that even though there may be a lot of judgment in the world, there may be a lot of negativity, the warmth and the love that we share with each other the unity that we would have can alter that judgment. And there's no other day that can do that. And there's something else I wanted to say for the people watching this video. I remember, I used to say to the Rav, "I can't, I don't want to pray, because I don't pronounce the words right. I don't know if what I'm saying, you know, why should I do that? I can pray and I don't understand what I'm doing and I can say the wrong things". And remember the Rav used to say to me, "It doesn't matter how you say it, it matters that you say it. It doesn't matter your prayer, the fact that your heart is pure and you want to pray". And that's one of the things that I want to give to the people watching this video. That, I myself felt that inadequacy in the first Rosh Hashanah and many years after that. For my ability to understand the Hebrew properly, for the way of the prayers properly. But you know what, that was the reason that we ingathered so many people. Because it doesn't really matter how we pray. It's the love and the concern and the consciousness that we put into that unity that counts. Join us in Anaheim. September 4-8, 2013. Register at Kabbalah.com/rh The Kabbalah Centre. Learn Transform Connect.