I recently engaged in the weekly ritual of deciding which food gets to stay in my fridge, and which gets dumped into the garbage can. As I stood there, examining my mozarella cheese, I thought, "Today is Yom Kippur for my food. I am standing here like a בקרת רעה עדרו, מעביר צאנו תחת שבטו
deciding the גזר דיו of every item.
I then started singing my favorite part of Unetane Tokef:
אָדָם יְסוֹדוֹ מֵעָפָר, וְסוֹפוֹ לֶעָפָר
בְּנַפְשׁוֹ יָבִיא לַחְמוֹ
מָשׁוּל כְּחֶרֶס הַנִּשְׁבָּר
כְּחָצִיר יָבֵשׁ וּכְצִיץ נוֹבֵל
כְּצֵל עוֹבֵר וּכְעָנָן כָּלָה
וּכְרוּחַ נוֹשָׁבֶת וּכְאָבָק פּוֹרֵחַ
וְכַחֲלום יָעוּף.
וְאַתָּה הוּא מֶלֶךְ אֵל חַי וְקַיָּם
Today, I was reading for class, counting off each reading, and I started to think of the High Priest counting in the temple Yom Kippur service, as expressed in the avodah prayer:
אחת, אחת ואחת....
Why this Yom Kippur obsessions? Is my subconscious telling me I need to do teshuvah?
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