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A Very Happy aid
Shabbat Rosh Hashanah:
Genesis 21:1-34;
Numbers 29:1-6;
1 Samuel 1:1-2:10.
fleaetily New year
to aee oto
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May the corning year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!
Frank & Esther Rosner
Jeremy, Arielle
May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!
The Rubin Family,
Allen, Marilyn, Molly & Kari
We wish our family & friends a very
healthy, happy and sweet New Year.
— Dahlia & Harvey Klein —
110 September 21 • 2006
Mixing Two Worlds:
Spiritual, Material
I
am having a hard time this year.
there is so much intormation to
Usually around this time, I am
be processed all at once. In my
taste-testing apples to decide
mind I hear: Mitzvot. Family. Hard
which I will dip into my New Year
work. Physical strength. Love.
honey. At this time of year, I am busy
Growth. Money, Health. Joy. Failure.
thinking about the start of Sunday
Accomplishment.
school, Hebrew school, Monday night
The task is overwhelming, indeed.
school and, of course, High Holiday
But when the two worlds collide, the
sermons.
world of the soul and the material
But I am having a hard time con-
world, incredible things happen. Rabbi
centrating this year. My
Chana bar Chanina said,
mind seems to be over-
"Great is repentance, for it
loaded and overwhelmed.
brings healing to the world,
When I am driving in
as it is said, will heal
my car, I listen to satellite
their wrongdoings, and
radio news. I am over-
I will love them freely"'
whelmed: Israel. Iraq. Iran.
(Hosea 14:5).
Afghanistan. Korea. Darfur.
Our repentance, our
Jon Karr. Unemployment.
personal ticker tapes and
Bird flu. New studies. Old
broadcasts, help bring
studies debunked.
Rabb i Jennifer
healing to the world. When
Rosh Hashanah is
T isdale
we better ourselves, take
here. It is a time of joy
Sec ial to the
ownership of what we do
and celebration and also
Jew ish News
and who we are, we make
a time of reflection and
this world a better place.
contemplation. The Saadia
The two are inextricably
Gaon, a medieval Jewish philosopher,
bound.
believed that at this season the sound
So if you find yourself overwhelmed
of the shofar helps us recall reasons
like me, don't turn off the broadcast
why God commanded us to hear this
in your mind, but rather, turn up the
stranger among sounds at this time
volume. Meet the challenge of Rosh
of year.
Hashanah head on. The world will be
First, it reminds us that Rosh
a better place because you did. L-1
Hashanah recalls God's acts of cre-
ation, the beginnings of our world and Jennifer Tisdale is a rabbi at Temple Israel
God's sovereignty over it. Second, the
in West Bloomfield and also works at the
shofar blast wakes us up to the task
Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network.
of atonement, alerting us that the 10
days of repentance are to follow.
Third, the sound takes us back to
the moment of revelation at Mt. Sinai.
Conversations
The calls of the shofar should find
At this time of year, do you
our minds busy in the work of sifting
find yourself overwhelmed
through the events of the year past
with both thoughts and tasks?
and considering that on that day the
How can we simplify our lives
Book of Life is opened, humbling us
to better enjoy ourselves and
before God; it encourages us to atone
better the world around us?
for things done in the year past and
What does it mean to take a
strive to make improvements in the
"personal inventory"?
year that is about to begin.
Once again, I am overwhelmed.