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Seasons of the Soul High Holiday: a Rosh Hashanah Anthology the Tzimmes a project of www.Chabad.org Rosh Hashanah 5763 (2002) Seasons of High Holiday: a Rosh Hashanah the Soul Anthology The Cry of the Shofar: Two Chassidic Parables... There can be no king without Sweet: A Divine Revelation... The 48-hour Brain... Cooking the Year... The Waking of a people. Kad HaKemach Story A Pittsburgh Miracle The warmth and the songs uplifted Marilyn in a way she hadn't expected -- creating a sense of openness inside her to whatever destiny had to offer Voices In and Out The doctor and a team of nurses surround the laboring woman. One wipes her furrowed brow with a damp cloth. Another grasps her clenched fist. Anticipation fills the sterile, white room Inner The Making of Sacred Time Dimensions Time, like every body, is punctuated by differ- ences of shape, form and substance. The Hebrew month of Tishrei is the "brain" through which the soul of time flows before spreading its life force The Mystery of Rosh Hashanah There is a great secret in the Voices One year Later: a 9/11 Anthology drama of Rosh Hashana. It is A year should give us perspective. 365 days to the mystery of a Creator asking cart off the debris, get our bearings, and take the His creations to participate in first small step on the path toward understanding. the birth of their own world and Of course, none of that has occurred of themselves. He asks the cre- ated beings to ask Him to create Parsha Rosh Hashanah Torah Readings — them. Genesis 21:1-34; Genesis 22:1-24 The wonder of Rosh Hashana Remembrance and laughter, banishment and is between Him as He is Above benevolence, seven sheep and a well, the ulti- and Him as He is in within us. mate sacrifice and the origin of Jerusalem For more information or to subscribe new material to one of our many insipiring added daily! periodicals log on to: www.Chabad.org This magazine contains sacred Torah material. Please do not discard. www.Chabad.org seasons of the soul High Holiday: A Rosh Hashanah Anthology the tzimmes. But here is a sampling of essays, insights and stories — some Rosh Hashanah reading to get us in the mood: It’s difficult to write about the festivals of the Jewish calendar in the English language. None of the available words seem to capture the mood of these landmarks in Jewish time. Holiday? Too frivolous. Holy Day? Too somber. Festival? Better, but still not quite the right word. The Hebrew phrase Yom Tov literally and blandly translates as “good day.” How, indeed, to describe the blend of reverence and revelry, seriousness and exuberance, liturgy and lokshen kugel that is the Jewish festival? In particular, the first festival of the year, Rosh Hashanah, seems to fit no familiar mold. It is the day on which we tremulously submit to the divine sovereignty and crown G-d as our king, but as the Chassidic masters point out, a coronation is always a festive event, with bands playing in the streets and crowds picnicking in the parks and fields. It is the day on which we stand in judgment before G-d, the day on which the Heavenly Court rules “who shall live and who shall die...who shall be impoverished and who shall be enriched... who shall fall and who shall rise”; but also the day on which we “eat lush foods and drink sweets... for the joy of the Eternal is your strength.” The Talmud offers the image of a person coming to court where a life-or-death verdict will be handed down on him, but he is dressed in white and has a lush feast awaiting him at home, confident that he will triumph in his trial. No single article can capture the paradox of Rosh Hashanah, much less explain it. To under- stand Rosh Hashanah, we need to exprience it — spend those hours praying in shul, hear the sho- far’s hundred notes, dip the apple in honey and eat Seasons of the Soul | Story | Voices | Inner Dimensions | Voices | Parsha | Week at Glance 2 www.Chabad.org Seasons of the soul The King and I Hamelech (“the king”) is an oft-occurring word in the Rosh Hashanah prayers, whose dominant theme is our coronation of G-d as king of the uni- verse and our submission to His sovereignty. Indeed, it is the first word chanted by the cantor on Rosh Hashanah morning, as he opens the Shacharit prayers with an awe-inspiring melody that climaxes with a sonorous Ha-me-lech! One Rosh Hashanah morning, the great Chassidic master Rabbi Aaron of Karlin fainted when he came to the word Hamelech. He later explained that he recalled the Talmudic passage that describes Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai’s encounter with Vespasian. Rabbi Yochanan had himself smuggled out of the besieged city of Jerusalem to plead with the Roman general to spare the Torah center of Yavneh. When Rabbi Yochanan entered Vespasian’s tent, he addressed him as “Your Majesty.” “You are deserving of death on two accounts,” said Vespasian. “First of all, I am not the king, only His Majesty’s general.” (In fact, a messenger from Rome was already approaching the general’s camp to inform him that he had been appointed sovereign of the Empire.) “Secondly, if I am indeed king, why did you not come to me until now?” “I thought to myself,” said the Rebbe of Karlin, “if we address the Almighty as ‘King,’ does this not invite the question, ‘If I am indeed your king, why did you not come to me until now?’What can we answer to that?” From the Chassidic Masters Seasons of the Soul | Story | Voices | Inner Dimensions | Voices | Parsha | Week at Glance 3 www.Chabad.org seasons of the soul was the king and escorted his master out of the forest and back to his palace. The king later rewarded him The Cry of the with many presents, and elevated him to a powerful Shofar: Two minister’s post. After a while, however, the man committed an act Parables which was considered rebellious against the king, and he was sentenced to death. Before he was taken out to be executed, the king granted him one last request. A parable from Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov: The man said: “I request to wear the clothes I wore A King had an only son, the apple of his eye. The when I escorted His Majesty when he was lost in the King wanted his son to master different fields of forest, and that His Majesty should also wear the knowledge and to experience various cultures, so he clothes he wore then.” sent him to a far-off country, supplied with a gener- The king complied, and when they were both ous quantity of silver and gold. Far away from dressed in the garments they wore at the time of their home, the son squandered all the money until he was meeting, he said, “By your life, you have saved your- left completely destitute. In his distress he resolved self,” and called off the execution. to return to his father’s house and after much diffi- The meaning of the parable is that when G-d gave culty, he managed to arrive at the gate of the court- the Torah to Israel, he offered it first to all the nations yard to his father’s palace. of the world. They all refused, except the people of In the passage of time, he had actually forgotten Israel, who willingly accepted the yoke of Heaven the language of his native country, and he was and fulfilled the commandments of the Creator. unable to identify himself to the guards. In utter But now we have transgressed and rebelled, like despair he began to cry out in a loud voice, and the the man in the parable, and with the arrival of the King, who recognized the voice of his son, went out Day of Judgment we are fearful indeed. So we blow to him and brought him into the house, kissing him the shofar to recall the shofar blowing that accompa- and hugging him. nied our original acceptance of the Torah and coro- The meaning of the parable: The King is G-d. The nation of G-d. This merit stands by us, and G-d for- prince is the Jewish people, who are called gives us all our sins and inscribes us immediately for “Children of G-d” (Deuteronomy 14:1). The King a year of goodness and life. sends a soul down to this world in order to fulfill the Torah and mitzvot. However, the soul becomes very distant and forgets everything to which it was accus- tomed to above, and in the long exile it forgets even Excerpted from Days Of Awe, Days Of Joy, www.kehoton- line.com by Rabbi Eli Friedman, published by Kehot its own “language.” So it utters a simple cry to its Publication Society Father in Heaven. This is the blowing of the shofar, a cry from deep within, expressing regret for the past and determination for the future. This cry elic- its G-d’s mercies, and He demonstrates His abiding affection for His child and forgives him. A parable from Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev: A king was once traveling in the forest and lost his way, until he met a man who recognized that he Seasons of the Soul | Story | Voices | Inner Dimensions | Voices | Parsha | Week at Glance 4 www.Chabad.org seasons of the soul Cooking the Year standing of what energy is.
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