Standing Before Hashem on Rosh Hashanah
Torah Wellsprings | September 18, 2025
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Standing Before Hashem on Rosh Hashanah

Torah Wellsprings | December 10, 2025

61. We can compare this to that which is written at the beginning of sefer Bamidbar, when Hashem instructs Moshe and Aharon to count the Jewish people. The Ramban (Bamidbar 1:45) writes that this was to give the Jewish people an opportunity to stand before Moshe and Aharon. The Ramban writes, "When one comes before the greatest navi [Moshe] and his brother [Aharon] and tells them his name, this is a merit for him, and it grants him life because he is being counted together with the Jewish nation. Moshe and Aharon will look at them with a good eye and pray for them."

Certainly, to be in Hashem's presence is a blessing, resulting in spiritual and material success. This occurs on Rosh Hashanah because Chazal tell us that on Rosh Hashanah, each person, individually, passes before Hashem.

61. We can compare this to that which is written at the beginning of sefer Bamidbar, when Hashem instructs Moshe and Aharon to count the Jewish people. The Ramban (Bamidbar 1:45) writes that this was to give the Jewish people an opportunity to stand before Moshe and Aharon. The Ramban writes, "When one comes before the greatest navi [Moshe] and his brother [Aharon] and tells them his name, this is a merit for him, and it grants him life because he is being counted together with the Jewish nation. Moshe and Aharon will look at them with a good eye and pray for them."

Certainly, to be in Hashem's presence is a blessing, resulting in spiritual and material success. This occurs on Rosh Hashanah because Chazal tell us that on Rosh Hashanah, each person, individually, passes before Hashem.

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