Yom Kippur: Filling the World With Hashem's Light

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why is the avodah of Yom Kippur a whole day of tefillah and mitzvos? When Hashem created the world He hid Himself, and an aveira declares that some place is empty of Him. Yom Kippur answers by filling every moment with kedusha and showing that no place is without Him. Perhaps this is why the Rama, in Hilchos Yom Kippur, gives going from mitzvah to mitzvah as the reason to start the sukkah right after Yom Kippur.

Key points

• Olam comes from helem: Hashem only seems missing from the world, yet He is here.
• An aveira announces that there is a place where Hashem does not see.
• In Hilchos Yom Kippur, the Rama ties building the sukkah to going from mitzvah to mitzvah.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Tzimtzum and the creation of the world
2. 2:07Rosh Hashanah: making Hashem Melech
3. 3:11Yom Kippur and the nature of chet
4. 4:38Shabbos announcing that Hashem created the world
5. 5:33Why Yom Kippur is all-day avodah
6. 7:31The Kohen Gadol's avodah step by step
7. 7:56Succos in Hashem's house
8. 8:21Two Ramas on building the sukkah

Topics

• Yom Kippur
• Tzimtzum
• Sukkah