Malchuyot: Crowning Hashem as the Only True King

Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits

The opening section of Musaf on Rosh Hashanah, Malchuyot, is not poetic repetition but a declaration of allegiance. This piece explains that making Hashem our King means rejecting the false “king” within — the yetzer hara, which presents itself as an alternative source of happiness and success. By exposing the evil inclination as an impostor and affirming that there is only one true source of good, Malchuyot trains us to internalize a single truth: there is no other path to fulfillment but connection to Hashem.

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