Machshava:

Tanya 

Collections: Rabbi Weinberger: Uvayom Hashmini

Description

The purpose of the distancing of Rosh Hashanah is to achieve the closeness of Yom Kippur. The two festivals of exile, Purim and Chanukah, express a situation of longing and being restrained. On Yom Kippur we can talk to Hashem panim el panim (directly). The effect on children when parents are enthusiastic about the spiritual and detached about the physical.