Rabbi Buchwald's Weekly Torah Message: "introduced a most profound principle. It is not fear that stimulates praying harder and results in being exonerated by the Great Judge. Some pious Jews enter Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur fully confident that they will be exonerated. Although they experience no fear, they are forgiven because of their piety. But those who approach the High Holidays in fear, will merit an even more profound exoneration and a greater sense of intimacy with the Al-mighty.
Rabbi Pincus offers the following cogent parable: A child and his father walk together in the crowded city, deeply engrossed in conversation. Suddenly the child vanishes. Perhaps he’s been kidnaped, perhaps he has lost his way. The longer the absence, the greater the fear. But suddenly, the father is informed that his child has been found. He rushes to the lad. The child, who sees his father coming toward him, runs and hugs him mightily."
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