<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; ">Shabbos is the celebration of the remembrance of Creation, a return to the perfect state, a return to the Source. Likewise, <i>Teshuva</i> is a return to the pure state.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; ">Fascinatingly, with this in mind, in the very first word of Torah are planted the seeds of Shabbos and Repentance. </span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; ">“</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><i>Bereshis</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "> has both Shabbos (shin, beis, sav) and tav, shin, veis, the root of teshuva. Also, implied in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><i>bereshis</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "> is beginning til end (aleph to sav).</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Palatino Linotype'" size="4"><br></font><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; ">Another very interesting observation: All the days of Creation are referred to as "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><strong><u>A</u></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "> second day," (Yom Sheni); </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><strong><u>A</u></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "> third day, (Yom Shelishi) and so on, except for the sixth day, which is called "Yom </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><b><u>HA</u></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; ">'Shishi" — </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><strong><u>THE</u></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "> sixth day." Rashi comments that this alludes to the fact that the Torah would be given on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><strong><u>the</u></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "><i>sixth day</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: large; "> (of the month of Sivan) many centuries later.</span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><o:p><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="4"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="4">My chiddush: <strong><u>HA</u></strong>shishi, <strong><u>THE</u></strong> sixth day is used to distinguish the most important creation of all – <u><b>THE</b></u> man (not just <b><u>A</u> </b>man).</font></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Palatino Linotype'" size="4">Chag Sameach </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Palatino Linotype'" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Palatino Linotype'" size="4">(Make sure you took out all your frustrations during the havatat aravot).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Palatino Linotype'" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Palatino Linotype'" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Palatino Linotype'" size="4"><br></font></div></body></html>