R' Bardichev,
Not having a thread, and since you appointed me the GYE moony, I'm sharing the following vort from R' Wolfson on your thread.
On hoshana raba, the ushpizen of Dovid, we fight the satan with the umnes of Dovid... v'ani tefila. We take the hoshana that is shaped like the lips.
Dovid's tehilim is shayich even to the lowest generation.
The aravos represent the lowest of klal yisroel. No taste, no smell.
The hashanos, when beaten, are the lowest of the low. Beaten on the ground, all bruised and blackened.
They are our generation.
But what do we do with them?
The minhag Yisroel is to throw them on top of the aron hakodesh. They become a tachshit for the holiest of holies.
Because davka our generation, who wallow in the mud wrestling with the YH, will, be elevated bkarov to be the crown of the Rebono Shel Olum...
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