It is told of a follower of the great Hassidic master, Rabbi Mordecai of Danburra, that during the summer he came to pay the Rabbi an extended visit, so that he might learn the ways of Torah and righteousness from him. Some time before Rosh Hashanah, he came to the Rabbi to take his leave and bid him farewell. "And why are you hurrying to return home at this time?” asked the Rabbi of the Hassid. "You see, Rabbi,” he answered, "I am a 'shliach tzibbur’, and conduct the services on the High Holidays in my home town. I therefore must leave early so that I can review the 'machzor’ and prepare my prayers before the holy day.”"Go, my son,” the wise Rabbi answered, "but remember that the Machzor and the prayers are the same as last year and the year before that. It is more important for you to review your own life and prepare yourself!”Those words apply with equal force and relevance to all of us. Again we shall flock to "shul” to congregate in awe before the Divine Throne of Justice, to hear the challenges of Shofar, to recite the ancient prayers whose words are hoary with reverent age and yet rise up 'at us with ever-sustaining vigor. But it is the same congregation, the same G-d, the same Justice, the same Shofar and the same prayers. They have not changed nor will they change. It is we who must change. It is ourselves whom we must "review and prepare”.This review of the past year and preparation for the next year are predicated on the fundamental Jewish confidence that man can change; nay, must change.If we will not review and prepare ourselves, if we will not change, then assuredly the others mentioned will not. The congregation will be beset with the same woes. G-d will not meet us any differently. Justice will be as unbending as ever. The Shofar will remain a hoarse and ineffective cry in the darkness. And the prayers will have become meaningless repetitions which fail to light a spark in our hearts and penetrate the depths of• our souls with the touch of Divine ec…