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Share1. Based on the emerging them of Part A and B create a #hashtag for each section
2. What function does Pasuk 14 have for this perek?
3. Why would we read this Perek over Elul through the Yamim Noraim?
4. As a group choose a Pasuk that speaks to you from either section and create a poster to hang up for the month of Elul
"(A psalm) of David:
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(1) The Lord is my Light and my Salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? (2) When the wicked drew around me to consume my flesh – my enemies and my foes – they stumbled and fell. (3) Even if an army should encamp against me, my heart would not fear; if war would rise up against me, even then I would be confident. (4) One thing I ask of the Lord, that is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the pleasantness of the Lord, and to visit His Temple. (5) For He shall hide me in His sukka in the day of evil; He shall hide me in the recesses of His tent, He shall set me up upon a rock. (6) And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; I shall therefore offer in His Temple sacrifices of joy; I shall sing and give praises to the Lord. |
(7) Hear, O Lord, my voice as I cry out; be gracious to me and answer me. (8) Of You my heart has said, 'Seek My face:' Your face, O Lord, I seek. (9) Do not hide Your face from me; do not put Your servant away in anger, You have been my help. Do not abandon me or forsake me, O God of my salvation. (10) For my father and my mother have forsaken me; let the Lord then gather me up. (11) Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me on a straight path, because of my enemies. (12) Do not deliver me over to the will of my enemies, for false witnesses have risen up against me, and those who breathe violence. (13) Had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. |
(14) Have hope in the Lord; be strong and He shall give courage to your heart; and have hope in the Lord."
The mirror of the Day of Remembrance (Rosh Ha-shana) is unlike the mirror of Yom Kippur. On the first day of the seventh month, God emerges towards man. On the tenth day of the month, man emerges towards God. God's public emergence towards the nation holds the secret of Kingship and justice. The private emergence of the individual towards God, Who dwells in secret, in shadow, holds the secret of repentance.
Man may meet his Creator in two ways… Sometimes God appears to man and shows His face to him… He fills him with vitality and showers him with the dew of rejuvenation, without the person having to wait days and nights, without seeking and searching for Him… However, God often hides… and then man pleads, "Show me, I pray You, Your glory." If this person – frightened and anxious, thirsty for salvation and relief, is longing for the living God, and God does not hurry to the encounter, then he must do as Moshe did on that wondrous morning. He must seek God… with agility (with excitement and ease), assiduously (with great care), conscientiously (applying oneself), with exertion (with physical and mental effort) and compulsion (desire). This is how one seeks and finds God.