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1 Minute Motivation - Extracting the Sweetness (Elul Motivational Minute)
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Why do we dip an apple in honey for Rosh Hashanah? The key is all about the difference between bee honey and date honey. For more content, visit https://www.rabbiefremgoldberg.org.
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no matter what age you are
dipping the apple on the honey is one of
the favorite parts of rosh hashanah
honey sweet it's delicious we wish one
another
shanatova umasuka are happy and a sweet
year if you look in tanakh whenever
there's a reference to
honey it's date honey
and yet when it comes to the practice of
dipping the apple in the honey we don't
use the honey
of a date we use the honey of a bee why
the answer is date honey is easy it
flows from the date naturally the
sweetness is accessible easily
but the bee honey it takes effort it's
the opposite
it takes preparation determination even
the willingness to endure pain
to retrieve the honey from the bee it's
hard it takes me serious nephews it
takes effort
shana tovo masuka are happy in a sweet
year the sweetest things and the biggest
source of our happiness
they take effort our rabbis tell us
according to the effort
is the reward that we will reap in this
season of the year
we can't afford to wait until take
things easy we have to make an effort
extend ourselves make sacrifices be
mostly nefesh
we have to be determined and resolute we
have to be willing to endure pain in
order to make the changes that in the
end
will come out and will feel so sweet
robert browning the 19th century english
poet put it well when he said
when the fight begins within himself a
man
is worth something this season let's
engage in that fight with ourselves
in order to be worth something in order
to retrieve not only the best of
ourselves
but the sweetest of ourselves and to
enjoy a sweet year
with those around us