What Are Some Ways to Make Changes and Start Anew During Rosh Hashanah?

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, Rosh Hashanah is an inner state where we start clarifying that everything we go through comes from the Creator, that the Creator is concealed behind everything in our lives.

Then, we are in a special state, an important point that determines our entire path onward into the future. We proceed to crown the Creator over everything that happens and determines with certainty that we depend on the Creator.

The desire to enjoy, our innate nature, reaches such a conclusion after myriad reasons and states it experienced, that the Creator is King over all the earth, which means that the Creator rules over all of our desire. From such a conclusion, we place the Creator, as it were, at the head of the path that we now continue to follow. If we reach such a clarification, it is considered that we have reached Rosh Hashanah. From such knowledge onward, we can continue our spiritual development.

Then, every quality, state, exertion of ours and the direction in which we want it to lead as a result, we then wish to connect it all to greater closeness with the Creator. Our concept of the Creator also continuously changes. We constantly make it more realistic, which means more distant from our desire to enjoy, and closer to the true concept of bestowal, which is the Creator’s nature. Accordingly, little by little, measure by measure, within ourselves we also change our understanding of what it means to bestowa, which exists in the Creator, and we agree with it to that extent even though it is nonexistent in us. However, somehow we understand that it is important and exalted, and that we must become accustomed to it, and must somehow devise means and gather forces in order to reach it.

We constantly need to work on this, i.e., that bestowal, regardless of what we currently understand regarding this concept, stands before us as the concept that replaces all other words. The upper world, Creator, upper force, serenity, and rest—whatever words in which we describe phenomena above this world. In this world, according to the dictates of our desire to enjoy, “upper” means what makes us feel good in our egoistic desires. We can thus bow down to anything from which our ego receives fulfillment. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, this is called “the golden calf,” a kind of image. So it is preferable that we build this image before us simply as an abstract concept called “bestowal,” and constantly scrutinize this concept, one drop at a time, making it increasingly detached from our desire.

Then, if we constantly hold onto this at Rosh Hashanah, meaning at the head of our spiritual development, then the effort we make in the study, books, teacher, and group will be the means for understanding and attaining this concept of bestowal, which is essentially spirituality, the Creator.