Reply To: Yomim Noraim – How Awesome:

THANKS FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL VORT @abukspan
I was thinking of a hosafa to this pshat with a thought of how we end off davening on Rosh Hashana Mussaf. We say KeHaYom hazeh teviaynu sosim u’smeichim bevinyan sholeim. So I was thinking, what’s the ‘KeHaYom Hazeh”? And why do we call the Beis Hamikdash a ‘Binyan sholeim’? According to your vort it’s beautiful. Kehayom hazeh, just as today we revel and bask in the Shechina’s presence in our shul here even in chutz l’aretz, and conduct ourselves in our shul, in our mikdash me’at, as in the beis hamikdash, but it is nevertheless lacking, it is not the preferred place for our avodas Hashem. Please teviaynu sosim u’smeichim bevinyan sholeim, in your Perfect House, the Beis HaMikdash. There we will do the avodah in its pristine way, in the Presence of Hashem where we can literally sense, in the most appropriate perfect holy place, the BH