May[49] G-d grant that everyone be aroused in true teshuvah, and that everyone's inscription [in the Book of Life] be sealed and confirmed for a good and sweet year, materially and spiritually.

Our Sages taught:[50] "A man's provisions are determined for him from Rosh HaShanah." My revered father-in-law points out in the maamar[51] that the plural form of "provisions" alludes to spiritual food and material food.

May it be G-d's will that everyone's provisions, both spiritual and material, be called forth unconcealed and unobscured, in the kind of good that is visible and manifest.

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[At the table on Motzaei Yom Kippur the Rebbe spoke of the elevated standing of penitents and cited the teaching of the Sages[52] that G-d loves the wicked. He concluded by saying that on Motzaei Yom Kippur "everything is in order."[53]

   

Notes:

49. (Back to text) This is an unauthenticated record of the words with which the Rebbe gave his blessing to those assembled on erev Yom Kippur, before Kol Nidrei, 5711 [1950].

50. (Back to text) Beitzah 16a.

51. (Back to text) I.e., the maamar that had just appeared in Kuntreis Shabbos Teshuvah/Motzaei Yom HaKippurim. (See Sefer HaMaamarim 5711 [1951], p. 34.)

52. (Back to text) A remarkable midrashic statement cited in Shevet Mussar, end of ch. 37, and at the beginning of Dovev Sifsei Yesheinim. See also Tomer Devorah (English translation by Rabbi Moshe Miller: The Palm Tree of Devorah), end of ch. 2; Sefer HaSichos, Kayitz 5700 [1940], p. 117.

53. (Back to text) In the original Yid., altz iz in ordenung. On the concept that at the close of Yom Kippur everything has been atoned, see the classic commentators on the mishnah, Kerisos 6:3.