Turn On the Flashlight-One Word of Truth Opens the light

We're standing in the four days between Yom Kippur and Sukkos, and this shiur is about why they matter more than almost anything. The Ten Days from Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur are teshuva mi'yirah — you came the way a man comes to court, in his best suit, with his best lawyer, because he is being judged. And Sukkos through Hoshana Rabba is teshuva me'ahava. Then Simchas Torah, where we marry the Torah. But between them there is a gap. Four days. And what you do in them decides which teshuva you get. Hamtana — waiting. Holding on to the ohr you received. Facing the same feelings you have always run from — the loneliness, the rejection, the failure, the one feeling underneath that nobody wants to meet — and this time not running. Every one of us is an addict of something. These are the withdrawal days. Hold on through them, and you walk into Sukkos able to do it out of love instead of fear. Today is day one. Baruch Hashem — victory. What we go through: • B'tzila d'mehemnusa — the sukkah as the shade of emuna. And emuna is not only faith, it is loyalty — He is loyal to us every morning, rabbah emunasecha • Hisbodedus, practically. Not a technique — a relationship. Five minutes. T