Ki Tavo 5784: Did Our Tefillos Fail Last Year? Approaching Rosh Hashana After a Difficult Year

There is only about a week and a half until Rosh Hashana.  And typically, during this time, I begin to close myself in my office and consider what messages I want to share over these important days.   But this year, I have continued to think about a question that many of us may have already been thinking about and will likely think about in some way on Rosh Hashana.  And that is: Did our tefillos fail last year during the Yamim Noraim?   The Yamim Noraim season concludes, to a certain extent,…