Question: During Rosh HaShanah, a person decides to start a new life, and despite the fact that he needs to rise above his nature, he nevertheless wants to check all his qualities within ten days before Yom Kippur.

Comparing them with the qualities of the Creator, he sees that he cannot be like the Creator in any of them, and on Yom Kippur decides to make a restriction on them, which in our world are represented by five restrictions.

After that, five days later, which symbolize the five Sefirot, the Sukkot holiday begins. What is the essence of these holidays?

Answer: The New Year (Rosh HaShanah) is preceded by a whole series of days when people ask for forgiveness. They sort of evaluate their actions, what good and bad they have done, and in general they understand that they have not done anything particularly good.

This is how a person checks his actions and comes to the conclusion that he is obliged to obey the upper will of the Creator because “there is none else besides Him.” He accepts the upper will as the only force ruling in the world. From this state, he begins to evaluate himself. He really has a very serious analysis of his actions and deeds, which continues until Yom Kippur.

Yom Kippur is the inner state of a person when he realizes that only one big egoism is acting within him and he must rise above himself. After all, the main commandment of the Torah is “love your neighbor as yourself,” and he is absolutely far from this and even the opposite of this. Therefore, he asks for forgiveness.

This is the principle of Yom Kippur, when he is ready to stop using his egoistic desires. There are only five of them in a person. Therefore, they are represented by five restrictions in our world: a prohibition on eating, drinking, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur” 10/12/19

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