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Hello rabbi Sperling
I contacted you about a year or so ago asking about my yom kippurim miracle countenance bows. You said I was nuts for lack of better words.
Today I found the real answer as to why I experienced this. On page 38 of halakhic man.
P38
If a Jew cognizes, for example, the sabbath laws and precepts concerning the sanctity of the day in all their particulars, if he comprehends, via a profound study and understanding that penetrates to the very depths, the very basic principles of the Torah law that take form and color within the tractate Shabbat, then he will perceive the sunset of a sabbath eve not only as a natural cosmic phenomenon but as an unsurpassably awe inspiring, sacred, and exalted vision
An external sanctity that is reflected in the setting of the sun
"I remember how once, on the Day of Atonement, I went outside into the synagogue courtyard with my father [R. Moses Soloveitchik], just before the Ne’ilah service. It had been a fresh, clear day, one of the fine, almost delicate days of summer’s end, filled with sunshine and light. Evening was fast approaching, and an exquisite autumn sun was sinking in the west, beyond the trees of the cemetery, into a sea of purple and gold. R. Moses, a halakhic man par excellence, turned to me and said: “This sunset differs from ordinary sunsets for with it forgiveness is bestowed upon us for our sins” (the end of the days atones). The Day of Atonement and the forgiveness of sins merged and blended here with the splendor and beauty of the world and with the hidden lawfulness of the order of creation and the whole was transformed into one living, holy, cosmic phenomenon."
Answer
Shalom,
Thank you for sharing this with me. I'm glad you've found some expliation. Rav Solovietchik's words are incrediably strong - and it's wonderful that they resinate with your own experiance.
Many blessings.

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