Recite before Me on Rosh Hashanah [texts making mention of] kingship, remembrance, and the shofar-- kingship, so that you may proclaim Me king over you; remembrance, so that your remembrance may rise favourably before Me; and through what? Through the shofar. (Rosh Hashanah 16a)
Is it only on Rosh Hashanah that we have kabalas ‘ol malkhus shamayim?
The Imrei Emes of Ger says, true, that is an obligation all year. However, Rosh Hashanah gives us the power to do it all year.
As the Gemara expresses it:
R. Zevid said: If the first day of the New Year is warm, all's the year will be warm; if cold, all the year will be cold. Of what [religious] significance is this [weather forecast]? (Bava Basra 147a)
The Imrei Emes explains the Gemara metaphorically:
The degree of warmth and excitement with which we accept malkhus shamayim on Rosh Hashanah – is the degree of warmth and excitement with which we serve God all year.
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