Heres a beautiful piece from Rabbi Shimshon Rephael Hirsch on the time that we're holding in.
The summer is drawing to a close. The earth receives the final glow of the sun and its fruits approach theri full maturity. Everything that grows and lives seeks to extract the maximum of ripeness from the last rays of the year. The apple paints itself with its final shade of red, the wine receives its richest sparkle. The ground gives its last sap, the corn-stalks grow to their limit. The bee seeks the last drop of honey in the flower cup before it vanishes. The squirrel drags the last grain of corn to his winter store. The returning swallow carries the last straw to the nest. There is no time to be lost; the end is in sight. The Master will soon call. Everything seeks while there is still time to attain and to achieve the best that is in it. It does not wish to appear before its Master with fragmentary an half-finished work, with its years performance still defective. The worm, the grasshopper, the beast, the bird, the stalk, the herb, the seed, the fruit, everything seeks "to fulfill the will of the Master, to perform the task He has laid upon it." Shall then negligence, remissness and perversity dwell in the haunts of man? Shall he harbour in his heart the spirit of thoughtlessness which lives in a dream-world for the day only, without ever thinking that the end is close and the Master is calling, without looking into and round himself, without looking before and after as to seize the speeding hour bu its pinions and using the vanishing moment in order to prepare himself for eternity?
Its that time again! So lets take advantage, instead of just sitting back and looking on! Let's start making changes!
peace & joy,
etan
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