Rosh Hashanah is considered to be the Birthday of the World; a day on which we acknowledge and celebrate the wonderful world that has been created for us to live in.\u00a0 The symbols and rituals of Rosh Hashanah — apples and honey, blasts of the Shofar, the head of a fish — open all of our senses to the wonder of the world that has been created.\u00a0 This week, we read Parshat Ha’azinu– which literally means “Give Ear..”\u00a0 listen, with your ears wide open.\u00a0 In his final speech to the people of Israel, Moshe describes how God’s speech will “flow like the dew.”\u00a0 We can attune our ears to the voice of God when we realize that God’s speech comes to us like the blast of a shofar, but also like the delicate, barely imperceptible sound of the dew in the grass.\u00a0\u00a0 Rosh Hashanah is a birthday party in which the sounds are not those of \u00a0fireworks and loud music, but the sounds of God in the world — in nature, in the voices of prayer, in family conversation.<\/p>\n
As we enter into the New Jewish Year of \u05ea\u05e9\u05e1”\u05d7, I wish all of you a year in which the voice of God resonates in your lives, loudly and softly, awakening and comforting.<\/p>\n
\u05b0<\/strong>\u05dc<\/strong>\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05e0\u05b8\u05d4<\/strong> \u05d8\u05d5\u05b9\u05d1\u05b8\u05d4<\/em><\/strong> \u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05ea\u05b5\u05d1\u05d5<\/em><\/strong> \u05d5\u05b0\u05ea\u05b5\u05d7\u05b7\u05ea\u05b5\u05de\u05d5\u05bc<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.”<\/p>\n Moreh Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rosh Hashanah is considered to be the Birthday of the World; a day on which we acknowledge and celebrate the wonderful world that has been created for us to live …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n