imagine if the results of rosh hashana and yom kippur were public knowledge. what if at the end of shul there was a billboard will a list of whos tefilos were accepted. what if there was another list of the fates of every shul member for the rest of the year. it would definitely be interesting, but it would also be very anti- climactic for the good things that will be occurring. im not so sure that it would be good knowing if something bad was going to chas veshalom happen. too scary. it is best that one doesnt know for sure if one's prayers are accepted. if they werent accepted and one knew this one might do more teshuvah, but one also might not bother. one also might go in a downward spiral because one wouldnt think that any prayer would help or change an evil decree. i would definitely say its better to be delusional and assume that hashem has forgiven us and expect a good year.
apparently hashem thinks that the secret ballot system he employs is superior. otherwise it wouldn't be secret.
gmar chatima tovah and have an easy fast.
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I think it would be so embarrassing for the results to be posted.
Mostly because people will judge, when sometimes things are worse or better than they appear at first.
Though I gotta say, if each time we davened or tried to do tshuva our results were outwardly presented to the public, we'd all be davening our brains out...and meaning it. Fasting wouldn't be in vain at all
There would be no choice so when our government made secret ballots they had reason.
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