The Magical Booth | Rabbi David Sutton

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[music] >> Many years ago, I heard a powerful mashal from the late Mashgiach Rav Matisyahu Salomon. He said as follows, [music] "What's the difference between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? It's the difference between going [music] to a photographer and going to a doctor. When you go to a photographer, [music] you cover up all your blemishes. You want to look your best. You want to make sure you get the right profile. When you go to a doctor, you take off all your go to a doctor, you take off all your makeup, take off all your base. I want him to see every pimple and every spot there is to be seen >> [music] >> cuz I want him to fix it. And he says, "That's the difference between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur." On Rosh Hashanah, we're going to the photographer. We want to make an image of the greatest me that I can be. [music] Imagine we have this new Photoshop device that you don't just play with the way your picture looks on your computer, but you go into this little booth and you make a picture of how you want to look. How big my nose

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1. 0:00[music] >> Many years ago, I heard a powerful mashal from the late Mashgiach Rav Matisyahu…
2. 0:31go to a doctor, you take off all your makeup, take off all your base. I…
3. 1:01how you want to look. How big my nose should be, the shape of my ears,…
4. 1:33serving God and my aspirations for what I really want to be. But then, reality sets…
5. 2:05that [music] special person, the real you, the person that you want to be. And then…
6. 2:36to have that vision, that picture of what we want to look like.…

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