Yom Kippur Pre-Ne’ilah: Hashem Knocking on the Door (Rav Amital)

Let’s be frank. We’ve been here many, many times – myself included.

The Rabbi gets up right before ne’ila and talks about how the gates are

about to close. Well, there’s good news. This year they aren’t closing – they

are about to open.

The classic paradigm for ne’ila is that the gates of

heaven about to shutter and we need to slip our last few prayers through the

crack right before the doors close. For some this is po