Rosh Hashana: Time To Double Check Your Seat - Rabbi Moshe Don Kestenbaum

i want to share with you a humorous cute anecdote with a very important and powerful lesson a few weeks ago i took my son to a baseball game to a yankees game and bar hashem we got really good seats and i remembered in my head we're in section 131 row three seat one and two for those of you that know yankee stadium you could tell me where it is and we go and we sit in our seats or early and then two boys come and sit in the row below us and i realized that they didn't come themselves i see them looking back to their family so apparently they saw their empty seats and they sat there right wrong but they were sitting there and i'm thinking to myself you know okay it's not so right they didn't pay for these seats and they're in front of us not really bothering us but okay and game goes on first inning second inning there's a man to the left of me and plenty of space on our road there's a man to the left of me a few seats down [Music] african-american nice fellow and enjoying the game comes the third inning or so some people come to our row we let them in and they look at the man the african-american man and they tell them they're sorry but that's their seat and then he gets up and comes over to us to my son and i and he says i'm sorry i didn't want to say anything the whole time to you but you're sitting in my seat and now they're coming in and kicking me out of my seat i have to ask you if you can please please leave and i'm very confused i said you know these are our seats right i wouldn't sit where i didn't pay where i don't belong so but i said i don't know what happened maybe someone somehow sold the same seats but i'm gonna double check and i pull out my tickets and i look again and i see section 132 row three see 1 and 2. i was in the wrong section i was one section off but i was sure that i was in the right section but i wasn't and an unbelievable lesson here here i was thinking i'm in the right seat these two little boys ahutzba they're not they didn't pay they don't belong here and now i realized i was the one maybe they were also but i was in the room we were in the wrong seat and this kind gentleman he didn't even tell us that [Music] as we approach rosh hashanah it's a time for us to reflect and think are we sitting in the right seat we're sure that we're right whether it's between our relationship hashem we're doing everything we should be doing whatever we're not doing we have good excuses for our relationships with other people maybe we have some relationships that are far from perfect they're strained and we are sure nothing to with us it's that person's problem it's their fault i'm in the right i didn't do anything wrong rosh hashanah is a time to reflect to think and to be willing and to be willing to look back at your tickets and double check and say am i sure i'm in the right seat maybe i've done something wrong maybe i've made a mistake maybe that person also did something wrong but maybe i'm not as innocent as i think i can let us be brave enough strong enough to be honest enough to look to introspect and improve ourselves work on ourselves and come closer takashibara who come closer to people that maybe we haven't been getting along as well as we could be as we should be akstiva hasimatova gugavan everything good [Music]