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TORAH PORTION
R osh Hashanah Marked
By Return To The Fold
BY RABBI MORTON F. YOLKUT
Special to The Jewish News
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SWIM of 13 Mlle
is the "Homecoming Sea- Hashanah and Yom Kippur
son". On the Days of Awe, Jews have I fulfilled?"
The Rebbe's words to the
return to the synagogue by the
tens of thousands from wherever Chasid are equally forceful and
they, may be. In a few days the relevant to all of us. Again dur-
synagogues will be filled with ing the next two weeks Jews
people. and we shall .see the will flock to the synagogue to
sight*hich Moses beheld when recite the same words from the
same machzor. Again this year
lie Brae the opening words of
our t= Torah reading for this we will hear the same sounds of
the shofar on Rosh Hashanah
-Shabbat:
(.:you are standing this day, and abstain from food and drink
all*you, before the Lord your on Yom Kippur. Everything will
odour leaders, the heads of be the same. Nothing will
your jtribes, your elders and change in our mechanical obser-
Your)tifficers, all the men of Is- vance of the High Holy Days. It
rael, :your children, your wives
and iven the stranger within
Nizavirn:
your eamp." (Deut. 29;9)
Whfft brings our people back Deuteronomy
no ow can say for sure. People
who• have been away all year 29:9-30:20. Isaiah
,somehow feel a tug, a call to
61:10-63:9.
come back, and they do.
not
at
all
sure
that
what
Tam
moist, f us experience during is our deeds and behavior that
this:: sacred season is Teshuvah we must review. It is ourselves
in the religious sense of contri- that we must- prepare for the
tion:and repentance. But, in its new year.
-biiginal and simpler - meaning,
Judaism asserts that we can
1112.-the sense of returning, change and we must change. We
Tesliutxth ' is not too pretentious are free moral agents, capable of
a'iord.with which to convey the choosing between right and
religiqus state of our emotions.
wrong. And because we are free
Por-.-;a11 our callous ,indifference
to choose, we are not only re-
to :Judaism during the year, sponsible for our past, but we '
coin? jli.osh Hashanah and Yom are also capable of changing the
Kippur there is a compelling course of our future. We can
urge to repair the estrangement. throw off the tyranny of debas-
'Itreally does not matter how -far. ing habits. Our tomorrow can be
strayed from our roots , freed from the shackles of yes-
we'
and.. our tradition the 'last 12 terday.
zeniths come these Days of
; And in this confrontation, we
AY/,,,f•Ave want to return, ,We are not alone. God'is our ally. In
-wanqoidentify with our people. , . the :Midrash, we are told that
V* , want to reclaim our trade- God , proclaims, "Open your
.tion,kond rediscover Four roo
hearts for me like a pin point,
But*ishing it will not make
and I will open for you the great
more is expected of us.
; doorways" ,(Shir Hatihirim R.ab-
so.r
* amour story from Hasidic bah, 5;3): The Kotzker :Rebbe
re nderscores the spiritual commented, "But it must be
i< nge of this season. A open all the way through." This
Obatoil. once spent a summer i s to say that, however minute
With; Rebbe to learn from the opening, it must pierce the
himAhe midr/ot, the principles heart completely, to its very
core. So too, must the Jews
of e cal behavior, 'the ways of
sense of remorse and desire to
-Torah), and the proper attitude
for-the High Holy Days. A week
change be complete and sincere.
before• Rosh Hashanah the Onl y- then, will God enlarge the
s(Gbeelill entered the study of the opening and assist in the proc-
, Rik ' to bid him farewell. ess. God helps those who want
,,: are you hurrying to re to remake themselves, to refine
turir:thome? Why don't you their• character, to redirect their
spetthe holidays with us?" lives.
This sacred season summons
..`T.pu, see, Rebbe," answered
us to purposeful action, to self-
the Chasid, "I am a shaliach
tzibur (cantor) in our community renewal and to regeneration. It
and I will officiate for the holi- assures us that the -future can
days in my synagogue. I must be better for us, that our cir-
now leave so that I will have cumstances can change and the
• the patternuf our lives can improve.
ample opportunity to review
May the new year find us all
mach or (prayer book)• and pre-
pare my prayers before the holi- , prepared , to enrich the content of
our lives, ready to meet the
day.
"GO , my son,- be'shalom — go ,challenges ahead, and hopeful
in peace. But remember the that, with,God's help, our tasks
rnadizor and the prayers are the and duties will be blessed with
same' as last year, and in the rich .fulfillnient and with great
year before, and the year before -achievements.
that It is far more important for
you to• prepare yourself for the
4g tyear. Ask yourself, the , Flallocaust Unit
following . questions: How far
Washington -- The directors"
40,0t I'-come this past year?
of Holocaust centers and groups
Viet have I accomplished more
th4thyear , than - in previous througholit 'the U.S. have
Y Oa* many resolutions formeti In, organization to pro-
vide services and prograMs.
,picomiSes of , ,last Rosh
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