{"id":6570,"date":"2017-10-11T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:30:57","slug":"message-moreh-greg-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/news-views\/blog\/message-moreh-greg-4","title":{"rendered":"Message from Moreh Greg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at Heschel we celebrated the seventh day of Sukkot, also known as Hoshana Rabbah.\u00a0\u00a0Hoshana Rabbah literally means, &#8216;Great Saving&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hoshana Rabbah is celebrated through a special prayer service in which we walk in &#8216;hakafot&#8217; &#8212; circles around the Bimah holding the Lulav and Etrog.\u00a0\u00a0As we walk we call out &#8216;Hoshanot&#8217; &#8212; recollections of how we have been helped and saved over the generations.\u00a0\u00a0Hoshana Rabbah is also the day that the Gates of Teshuva are officially closed.\u00a0\u00a0According to the The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zohar\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zohar&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1507825379733000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE5oEsZFiDmZUYNFAFloWw4v2rbig\">Zohar<\/a>\u00a0, the judgment for the new year is sealed on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yom_Kippur\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yom_Kippur&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1507825379733000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEvkSQNyhw41GG3uQozPt1Aw_PGgw\">Yom Kippur<\/a>, but it is delivered on Hoshanah Rabbah.\u00a0\u00a0So even though we usually think that Yom Kippur is the last day to seek forgiveness, we actually have until Hoshana Rabbah.<\/p>\n<p>In order for our &#8216;Hoshanot&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0to be especially meaningful, we connected them to our learning from the first weeks of school. For instance, our grade two class, which has learning about water, thought about how God protected Moshe when Yocheved place him in the Nile river.\u00a0 Our grade fours, who have been learning all about sound, thought about how Avraham saved Yitzchak when he perceived the sound of God&#8217;s voice as instructions. 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