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TORAT MIZRACHI

Rabbi Dr. Ernest Agatstein

A Time for

n aspect of Yom HaKippurim marriage. Jewish couples are thus and cleaving to G-d, creates the high-
not often addressed is that it given the message that their lives and est human happiness. This kind of
Aseems to have been a minhag households need to be conducted by clinging is emulated when a man takes
in Klal Yisrael to make shidduchim on the dictates of the Torah. a wife and they cling to each other.
Yom Kippur, as it states: 1
The Michtav M’Eliyahu describes the No other human could be in the Beit
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באב רשע השמחכ לארשיל םיבוט םימי ויה אל joy one is meant to experience at the HaMikdash when the Kohen Gadol
...תואצוי לארשי תונב ןהבש םירופכה םויכו conclusion of Yom HaKippurim. We was doing the Avodah. The Holy of
have hopefully been worthy of receiv-
“There were no more joyous days in ing atonement and absolution due to Holies is a hidden place. There is a
Israel than the 15th of Av and Yom the power of the day and through our strong component of tzniut, modesty
HaKippurim because on that day the prayers, repentance and charity. At in the Avodah of Yom HaKippurim.
daughters of Israel would borrow the close of Neilah, many burst into
clothes from each other…” song and dance exactly because of this This was a message Chazal wanted
couples to have as a foundation in
The Mishna then proceeds to describe feeling of happiness. An atmosphere their new lives together, as they build a
in detail how the marriages were of simcha is certainly conducive to a Bayit Ne’eman BeYisrael.
arranged. The Radak, in explaining Jewish marriage.
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the celebrations held in Shiloh during Doubt causes anguish. Resolving May the merit of many shidduchim in
the times of the Judges, says it refers Klal Yisrael, Limud HaTorah, Devekut
to the custom mentioned in Masechet doubt leads to happiness. On Yom with Hashem – brought on by selicha
Kippur, when the red string tied to
Ta’anit regarding making shidduchim and mechila via Yom Kippur, modesty,
on Yom HaKippurim. the horns of the goat sent to Azazel and above all simcha – lead to the
turned white and when the Kohen
What is the connection between Yom Gadol emerged unscathed from the coming of Moshiach Tzidkeinu, Bim-
HaKippurim and getting married? Holy of Holies, Klal Yisrael knew with heira BeYameinu, Amen.
certainty they had been forgiven of
The second luchot were given to Klal their sins.
Yisrael on Yom HaKippurim. Many 1 Masechet Ta’anit 26b.
commentaries see the luchot as a There is no greater simcha than 2 Shoftim 21:19.
symbol of the kiddushin between Klal resolving doubts – clarity and abso- 3 Shir HaShirim 3:11.
Yisrael and HaKadosh Baruch Hu. lute knowledge on Yom Kippur that 4 Volume 1 page 266.
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Chazal say the verse םֹוי ְ בּו ֹותָּנ ֻ ת ֲ ח םֹוי ְּ ב we are still beloved by G-d was the 5 Harerei Kedem 161.
ֹו ּ ב ִ ל ת ַ ח ְ מ ִ ׂש is an allusion to “the day of background to brides and grooms
his wedding – this represents Matan finding each other.
Torah.”
Rav Soloveitchik explains why simcha
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Since the giving of the second set of is so great on Yom Kippur. Sin dis- Rabbi Dr. Ernest Agatstein, a urologic sur-
luchot on Yom HaKippurim is also a tances us from G-d. The aim of Yom geon and Presidium member of Mizrachi–
day of Matan Torah, we see thereby Kippur, in washing away our sins, is RZA, has been a Daf Yomi maggid shiur for
the strong connection between Yom to bring us in close contact with Him. the past 31 years. His shiurim can be found
HaKippurim and the institution of True devekut with Hashem, clinging at rza.org and on the Daf Doc podcast.

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