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the sense of recovering or recounting
the past, but in the sense of compas-
sionately reconnecting the dislocated,
disjointed, dismembered limbs of the
body-soul into a wholeness;
* Shofarot is about the transforma-
tion that comes when the shofar is
blown in joy and hope.
To celebrate Yom Teruah (the day
of shofar-blowing, as the Torah calls
what we call Rosh Hashanah), put
yourself in each of these three places.
Malchuyot: What would a world be
like that had no justice in it, no sense
that what we sow is what we reap?
What love and generosity have we cre-
ated for ourselves by acting lovingly
and generously? What pits have we
stumbled into because we dug them
for ourselves? What can we do to
bring more justice into the world?
Zichronot: What would a world be
like that had no compassion in it?
What love and generosity do we need
in spite of having acted unloving and
ungenerous?
As the powerful chant of Avinu
Malkenu says, Eyn banu ma'asim —
"We cannot cite in our defense the
deeds that we have done, because we
have none." We ask — Asei imanu
tzedakah va'chesed — "Do for us what
we need: rightness and lovingkind-
ness." What can we do to bring more
compassion into the world?
Shofarot: What would it mean for
us not only to make the incremental
changes of respecting karma and
expressing compassion, but to radical-
ly transform ourselves?
Perhaps we can write 10 notes to
ourselves, each one a guess, a hint, a
note of our intentions. Actions I could
take, feelings I could explore, narrow
places I could turn into birth canals.
Here, the focus is not our misdeeds
but a vision of our own best selves —
with specifics.
During its 26 hours, we chant four
times a recitation called the Al Chet.
"Chet" (usually translated "sin") is the
archer's word in Hebrew for "missing
the target." So the Al Chet is a list of
ways we have missed the mark in the
living of our lives this past year.
Traditionally, we recite them all as
they are listed in the prayerbook,
whether they all feel real to us or not.
In the fifth service of the day,
Neilah, which comes as Yom Kippur
is ending and the gates of heaven
close, there is no Al Chet. It is
assumed that we have done all that we
can.
, Traditionally, on the two days of
Rosh Hashanah, we read the two sto-

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