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sented with choices about how to live
our lives, what priorities to choose,
e read the Torah year in
which path to follow; while the choices
and year out, and every
we made yesterday do influence our
so often a word touches
path today, there is always the oppor-
us in a way that it has not
tunity to turn around, for
touched us before.
good or for bad, and make a
As I picked up the
different choice.
Chumash to read through
Next week we will begin
Parashat Re'eh in order to
the month of Elul — the
find an idea for this col-
last month of the year, the
umn, I didn't have to read
month of teshuva, of repen-
very far before I was struck
tance — ushering in the
with the power of one word.
High Holiday season. We
At the beginning of the
think about the changes we
parashah, Moses says to
must make and the choices
Rabbi Robert
the people of Israel: Re'eh,
we must continue in the
Dobrusin
see, I am placing before you
year to come.
Special to the
hayom (today) a blessing
On Rosh Hashanah, dur-
Jewish News
and a curse. While I have
ing the Musaf service, we
heard this verse countless
recite the words Hayom
times before, the power of that word
harat Olam: "Today the world was
hayom — today — struck me in a
called into being." This recalls the
way that I had never felt before.
rabbinic opinion that the world was
Hayom, today. When Moses spoke
created at this time of year. The rabbis,
those words, it must have seemed
however, taught that every day is the
totally natural. But to us, reading it
proper day for teshuva, for repentance.
millennia later, that word challenges
And thus each day we can truly say:
us to feel the reality of the experience
"Today the world is created again."
of Torah in a unique way.
Today, like every day, we are pre-
Those words are still being said
sented with the choices that will affect
"today." When we say the blessings for
our lives — and affect our world
the aliyah to the Torah, we acknowl-
— for days far beyond today. ❑
edge that God is the "giver of Torah"
— notayn haTorah — not the one who Robert Dobrusin is rabbi of Beth Israel
gave the Torah. We acknowledge that
Congregation in Ann Arbor.
Torah is still being revealed to us and
that Moses is still speaking to us today.
Conversations
The words which Moses said about
What types of choices are
the blessing and the curse are still
we presented with each day?
every bit as true today as they have
How much of an impact do the
ever been. Each day we are given the
choices we make every day
opportunity to choose between bless-
really have on our lives?
ing and curse. Each day, we are pre-
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spoke out against anti-gay rhetoric
in the Orthodox community at a
Washington vigil mourning two Jews
slain at a gay center in Tel Aviv.
"It's time to do some internal
accounting" as to whether such
"rhetoric has created this climate" that
allows for violence and "vilification"
of gays and lesbians, Rabbi Shmuel
Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom/the National
Synagogue said Aug. 3 at the vigil.
In an attack Aug. 1, a masked
gunman killed a 17-year-old and a
26-year-old. Ten others were injured.
Speculation has centered on it being a
hate crime. The gunman is still at large.
Herzfeld called for the Orthodox
community to create a communal
pledge that "we will not create a cli-
mate of gay bashing" and "enforce it."
In an interview, Herzfeld noted that
while homosexuality was "prohibited
by the Torah," murders in Israel were
"a desecration of God's name."