Kabbalat Shabbat Kavannah | Rabbi Roly Matalon | October 3, 2025

Yom Kippur was a massive climb.

I think we all feel tired.

I know we do.

And the musicians do was,

big effort.

And for those of you who were here,

at the other locations,

and we're doing the work.

It was,

it was a steep climb, but,

we've been climbing all the way from the beginning of Elul,

the climb to Yom Kippur, when we reached the peak

of entering into those most

inner place of beautifully spoke yesterday

afternoon inner place the Holy of Holies,

didn't happen just in one day or in ten days.

It happened since the beginning of Elul will be slowly,

slowly climbing and slowly getting there very

slowly, intentionally, gradually.

And then we get there.

And then, of course, we can't be expected to just drop

to back

to normal lives to where we were before Elul.

It's possible.

I mean, I mean, some people do it, but,

how can you do that?

I have to begin a descent

back.

And these days, post

Yom Kippur, you're still carrying the

the feelings, the emotions, the work, the thoughts,

still carrying them with us, which is that this is not a just a normal Shabbat.

In fact,

tradition says that every Shabbat

carries everything that came in the week before the six days of the week,

flow into the Shabbat and endow a particular Shabbat with its character.

Whatever happened in the previous days,

it flows into that Shabbat, and it

gives it its, its particular character taste.

And then that Shabbat is also the precursor of the week that follows.

Everything that will

follow in the week is already, in many ways contained

in the energy, in the radiance of that particular Shabbat.

And here we stand in this Shabbat, which is very special and unique

because the week before includes Yom Kippur.

So we carrying all the.

All the Yom Kippur ness into the Shabbat.

And the next week is so-called a Monday night.

And so this Shabbat also begins to anticipate

what will happen in so called.

And so it's a very, very special Shabbat, this learning that says this is the most

special Shabbat in the entire year, because it's that

that meeting point between what?

What is Yom Kippur?

Yom Kippur is then Yom Kippur is a day of judgment.

And so we feel that all then is

not just judgment is or it's either it's, it's it's really all

carry the or

of Yom Kippur into this day.

And it is pure joy

and joy associated with rested with love.

So this is a day Shabbat in which love and and and,

or or Ella fear or

deen judgment come together.

It's a very unique.

We hold both

Yom Kippur as a day of inwardness.

I mean the Holy of Holies.

And coming into the innermost place, most intimate place is also the experience

of Yom Kippur coming into the very, very inner place

in our hearts.

So it's a day of being in,

and we've been in the synagogue for an entire day inside.

But so God is out.

So God is physicality.

So God is being in the sukkah, which is open,

and it's holding the arbor

minim the four species, which is very, very physical, very material.

And so it's also the Shabbat contains that.

So those two elements of the inward

and the outward on this particular Shabbat.

So it's very special.

And I invite you to and that's the way in which we sort of

calm down, come down from Yom Kippur, we don't just drop, go back to normal.

But this is a transition point,

this day and the next couple of days before we get to

what are these transitions, the four days of the transition

from all and then judgment

to love and to joy

from inward, outward. So.

This is the essence of the Shabbat we inhabit now,

for the next 24 hours will be in this space.

So I invite you to hold that, to think about that, to feel that the hold

that to hold what we experienced yesterday, which was a glorious day

except for the news from the murders in a synagogue in Manchester,

which were a terrible stain

and blood bloody stain in the in the gloriousness of the day.

And we are anticipating the joy coming in

in the week of second, culminating with Signatera.