Here we have reached the moment, here the time has come, here it is the holiest day in the world. It seems that there is no power in the entire world that can compare to the inner energies that come forth at the mere mention of the words "Yom Kippur." That great and holy day, which unites the entire Jewish people in all its shades and colors in the multitude of its letters. If, unfortunately, the vast majority of the people who are far away and captive to their desires do not know what the Shema is and who Moses our Lord is, then Yom Kippur - today, as a concept and as it is, is known to everyone who has a Jewish soul within them. And it is not an empty word, for this great and holy day affects its virtues only to those who recognize it and to those who know its essence. Blessed are you, Israel, before whom you purify yourselves, and blessed are you, for your Creator is your purifier.
The great moralists likened this sublime day to the laws of the global world. It is known that every country that maintains friendly relations with its neighbors is obliged to provide a special embassy complex for its neighboring friend. But there are two conditions for the place in order for the name of the embassy to be inscribed on it; the place must be fully owned by the friendly country both in the land registry and as an official government property, and the additional condition requires that in the embassy complex throughout its length and breadth, only the laws of the host country will apply and in no way is it illegal or illegal to the local policy. For example, a great absurdity is often created when someone violates the laws of their country in the embassy building - where different laws apply - and therefore there is no possibility of bringing them to justice. These two conditions have been observed with extreme devotion over the years, and a small deviation from one of them, and especially the second condition, has the power to create acute diplomatic crises that ultimately lead to real wars between superpowers, and things have already happened before.
However, and notwithstanding the above, the laws of the embassy country will not apply to the person in the compound unless he holds a valid passport that identifies him as a full citizen and subject of the host country. Otherwise, the person will be judged solely according to the laws of the current country's government in all its aspects.
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These sublime and great days, which are delimited among the days of the general year, are defined by the moralists as the Embassy of the policy of mercy of the merciful, the merciful and compassionate in the measure of mercy and the one who allows the measure of justice to be enforced. On these days, the right of everyone who is in the embassy compound to be judged according to the laws of the policy of mercy and to be completely saved from the measure of justice that applies all days of the year outside the area of the Embassy of Mercy - which opens its doors during these ten days to all oppressed.
But here too, the main condition "carrying the passport of the country of the embassy" is strictly required. Here too, absolute identity and citizenship in the country and government of the Creator of the world is required. Only those "citizens of the Holy One, blessed be He," will be those who will be granted the right to be judged in the embassy complex in a merciful court with grace and compassion. Other citizens will not be given the right to avoid the measure of justice and come under the wings of mercy if they have not received His "citizenship" and His G-d be blessed upon them.
This is the virtue, and this is the wise advice, these days, and especially on the great and holy Yom Kippur - the heart of the consulate complex. Obtaining a visa, citizenship, and passport is extremely easy. They say that there is not even a queue or rush when issuing the application. Three times a day in every synagogue, there is the opportunity to love His name, blessed be He, upon us and to receive His G-dliness and His complete kingdom upon us as Father and King. Only in this way, only by virtue of this standing up and enlisting as loyal soldiers to all that the Sovereign commands us, are we given the opportunity to shelter these days in the shadow of a merciful Father who spares and has compassion on His children who suffer and are tormented in the general and personal exile.
We find it somewhere, because on this Yom Kippur that has come upon us for good, beyond the holy work of prayer on the day of forgiveness and pardon, and beyond the request for supplication that we may be worthy to be immediately sealed with good deeds and peace in the book of the perfect righteous and may already be worthy to see with honor the Shekhinah trampled in the dust, apart from all this, we must sanctify His blessed name and accept upon ourselves with all our heart and with all our strength of understanding His blessed kingdom and His divinity over all our limbs and tissues, over our spirits and souls, so that we may all be worthy, with all our physical and spiritual garments, to be sheltered deep within that embassy of grace that is open to all who are oppressed and all who are in need among your people Israel.
May you be signed and sealed in the book of life.
