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Georgia Atkin on Mouth-watering recipe from THE KEEPING DEVORAH’S OF THE BEES RECIPE CORNER Dear Friend: A story is told of the Baal Shem Tov, the DEDICATED TO founder of the Chassidic movement. He once ascended THE LOVE AND to Heaven and met with Moshiach. He asked him, INSPIRATION “When are you coming, my master?” Moshiach then OF THE replied, “When your wellsprings spread to the outside.” LUBAVITCHER The nature of a spring is to ow outward. REBBE OB”M People do not have to dig or draw up water from a spring; it simply ows out, even to a distance, and anyone who wants can come and drink. This exchange took place between the Baal Shem Tov and the soul of Moshiach on Rosh Hashanah, 5507, 1746. The Holiday of Rosh Hashanah marks the Jewish New Year and is a time of renewal for the world. The unique magazine you hold in your hands will help feed your Jewish mind and heart. May this year be a sweet year of blessing for you and your family, and let us pray that by igniting our soul, by inspiring our minds, the world around us will follow. And soon we will all be blessed with the coming of Moshiach speedily in our days. Wishing you a sweet New Year, Sincerely, Rabbi Yaacov Halperin Chabad of the Lehigh Valley
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I am a complicated Jew and if you’re wondering whether or not you qualify as a “complicated” Jew, you are too.
While studying for his PhD in psychology, my father and his classmates learned how to administer personality tests by taking the tests themselves. One Monday morning, the students waited in the classroom for the professor to arrive with the results of the personality test they had taken the previous Friday. One of the students groaned, “I was so nervous all weekend to nd out the results of my personality test that I almost drove my car into a tree.” At that moment, the professor walked in. It was clear that he had overheard the student’s comment. He looked at the nervous student and said, “You don’t need to wait for any results.” So, if you have to ponder whether or not you simple, everything gets set straight again. shown up out of the blue, and you ask them, are a complicated Jew, you have your answer Everything becomes clear. “Why did you come to shul today?” What do right there. What is it about Yom Kippur that makes it you suppose they’ll say? “Well, that’s an so uncomplicated? interesting question.” ey’ll probably have A simple Jew doesn’t ponder such things, not some interesting answer, some fascinating story about why they were suddenly inspired to come to “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE TODAY? WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE?” shul. But you won’t hear an interesting story about why someone showed up to that he’s unintelligent. Oh sure, some simple Kabbalisticly on Yom Kippur, the fth level shul on Yom Kippur. Jews are unintelligent, but then again, some of your soul, or the fth degree of your What’s the di erence between the Yom are quite bright, even brilliant. "Simple" has individual spirituality, is revealed. In short, Kippur reason for suddenly showing up in nothing to do with intellectual prowess. there are ve levels of the soul; 1) the energy shul and the rest-of-the-year reason for ere are simple Jews who are of holy behaviors, 2) the energy of holy suddenly showing up in shul? e di erence astrophysicists. Simple Jews can be very emotions, 3) the energy of holy intellect, 4) is that the rest of the year, I feel like I need to smart, but no matter how smart they are, if the energy of faith and 5) the essence that explain my Jewishness. On Yom Kippur, you ask a simple Jew a simple question like transcends all these. what’s there to explain? “Are you Jewish?” they’ll give you a simple answer. A complicated Jew, on the other at’s why we pray three times a day on a at’s what it’s like to be a simple Jew. hand, gives you a complicated answer. He normal day in order to gain access to levels has to qualify it with all sorts of disclaimers. one, two, and three. On Shabbat and So, how does this clean up the past and send e answer to, “Are you Jewish?” becomes holidays, we add a fourth prayer and we can us fresh and clean into a new year? “It depends what you mean by Jewish.” e feel level four. Only on Yom Kippur we simple Jew understands that “Are you have ve prayers in a single day, which means On Yom Kippur, when we all become simple Jewish?” is a yes-or-no question and there’s that we get in touch with that fth level, the Jews, then everything else ceases to matter. no commentary needed. essence of the soul that just is. We refrain Oh, sure, if you want to be complicated you from eating and drinking, from working, and can point out all sorts of contradictions in is clarity can make complicated Jews from all mundane pursuits, getting away my life. You can show me how I haven’t nervous and we dismiss it as from doing so that we can just start "being". exactly been acting like a Jew all year. e “black-and-white thinking,” “extreme,” Hence, the angelic pure white robes, the arguments and the logic are all well and good “one-dimensional,” or “shallow.” As kittel, that many are accustomed to wear. It’s for another time. We’ll analyze that stu later complicated Jews, we revel in our reminiscent of simple burial shrouds, and x whatever we need to x. But at this sophistication allowing us to explore the reminding us that no matter what kind of moment, the contradictions are irrelevant. ambiguities of every issue. However, does complicated clothes we wear in this lifetime, All that matters is the simple truth. I am a analysis really equal smart? we all go to the grave as equals. Or like they Jew. Everything else I’ve done to contradict say, at the end of the game, both the king and myself all year suddenly disappears. As we analyze this statement, being a simple the pawn get Jew doesn’t necessarily make you put unintelligent, so too being an analytically, away in over-thinking Jew doesn’t automatically the “WHY AM I HERE? WHY ARE YOU HERE” make you clever. ere’s a di erence between same intelligence and thought. For instance, think wooden of driving directions to the airport. Are you box. thinking them now? Great. Were you thinking them ten minutes ago? Probably I always appreciate what’s happening on Yom Ah, to be a simple Jew, to have clarity even if not. Did you know directions to the airport Kippur when I talk to a “one-day-a-year” for a moment. is Yom Kippur, when ten minutes ago? Probably yes. ere is a Jew. Try it. Stand outside your synagogue on your own Jewishness needs no justi cation, di erence between knowing and thinking. Yom Kippur and speak to the man or woman try to remember what that feels like. Even Just like you can know something and not be who you’ve never seen before and ask him or when you get your complicated brain back thinking about it, so too, you can know a lot her, “What are you doing here today? What the next day, hang on to that clarity of who of things and not be a big thinker. brought you here?” You’ll get a funny look, you are. Are there aspects of your life that are Conversely, you can also know very little, like you just fell o of the moon. If they even in con ict with or even antithetical to your and still be a very busy thinker. Practically, dignify such a silly question with a response identity? Nu. Maybe there are. So you’ll what does this mean? It means that I can it will be more of a string of questions than work on that. But none of that changes the spend a lot of time analyzing and an answer. “Why am I here?" " Why are you reality of who you are. You’re a Jew. It’s that contemplating, and it doesn’t make me here?" "Where else should I be?" "Maybe simple. smart. Or I can not think that much and still my calendar is wrong?" "It’s not Yom be very intelligent. Kippur?” Basically, I’m a Jew and I’m in shul. It’s all very simple. If you need to understand Rabbi Shais Taub is a noted author and Luckily, Yom Kippur is the one day a year it, then you’re the strange one. lecturer. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his that we all become simple Jews. Yes, even wife and children complicated Jews such as ourselves, get to But imagine any other day of the year. You become simple for a day. When we become see a newcomer in shul, someone who’s just
High Holidays 5774 “The Keeping of Bees is like the Direction of Sunbeams.”
Who doesn’t love the sweet taste of honey? It is speci c role. a culinary treat that coats the senses with happiness. Eating apples dipped in honey is a New e center of the hive is the queen Year tradition that expresses our yearning for a bee, of which there is only one. Her sweet year and the aroma of freshly baked honey job is to lay the eggs that will keep the cake wafting from the oven can tempt even the hive populated. Next are the worker diehard dieter to try a bite. bees, whose job descriptions vary. ere are nurse bees, who tend to the cells and In ancient times, honey was appreciated for its larvae, undertakers, who cart away the dead, delicate avor. It was fermented with water and/or guards, who protect the entrance of the hive, and yeast to make wine, the mead of lore. In modern scouts, who seek out nectar. honey, which, by the way is kosher, twice a year. In times, we appreciate honey’s healthful bene ts as spring, the honey is a light colored and delicately an anti-oxidant, a natural energy booster, and ese scouts travel as far as ve miles to discover avored version and in the fall, the honey is a more mixed with tea and lemon, a homemade soother of owering trees and plants. After completing their robust and almost reddish-brown variety. Craig the discomforts of the common cold. reconnaissance, they return to the hive and execute calls his honey Hannah’s Honey, and you can order the most amazing phenomenon, transmitting their his products through your local Chabad Center. So what elaborate equipment is needed and to ndings to the other bees by doing what has been which mysterious clime must we travel to discover described as a “waggle dance.” e scouts shake But Craig’s beekeeping is not primarily a commer- how to produce this exotic product? their abdomens producing a buzzing sound and cial venture. He is amazed by the intricacies of the this sound combined with the beating of their process and the unique ability of the bees to It turns out we need look no further than our own wings, communicates the distance to the forage produce their own food supply. His admiration for neighborhood where local beekeeper Craig Jahnke site to the other bees. the bees and our appreciation of his enterprise, has maintained twenty hives on his Fox Chapel puts us in the august company of that noted honey area property for more than ve years. is fantastic dance language was rst observed connoisseur, Winnie the Pooh, who remarks in and noted by Aristotle in 330 B.C.E. and A.A. Milne’s, e House at Pooh Corner, Craig became intrigued by beekeeping when a described by Karl von Frisch of Munich in 1967 in friend introduced him to the process. When he his book, e Dance Language and Orientation of “ e only reason for being a bee that I know of is realized how simple it was to get started, he Bees. Karl received the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his making honey and the only reason for making purchased the bees from beekeepers in Georgia groundbreaking research. honey is so I can eat it.” and California, bought a smoker and protective clothing and let the magic of beekeeping unfurl. As for Craig’s bees, they enjoy the nectar from Georgia Atkin is a freelance writer living in O’Hara neighborhood trees like the Black Locust, Tulip Twp., PA. Craig explained that the hive operates like a Poplar, and Basswood, and so their honey has a community in which each of its inhabitants has a distinctly local avor. Craig collects and bottles the
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Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur September 4-6 September 13-14
Unlike a typical New Year celebration, the Jewish New Year is a time of awe and After the sin of the Golden Calf, Moses fasted and prayed for 40 days on behalf solemnity. Rosh Hashanah means, “head of the year.” Just as the head controls of the Jewish people. On Yom Kippur, G-d proclaimed, “I have forgiven.” Yom the body, Rosh Hashanah contains the potential for life, blessing and Kippur means “day of atonement” and is the holiest day of the year. sustenance for the entire year. Before Yom Kippur, we observe the Kapparot service by rotating a On Rosh Hashanah, the birthday of Adam and Eve, we renew our fowl or money over our heads, which we then give to the poor. On Yom Kippur, relationship with G-d and are evaluated, together with all of humanity. we do not eat, drink, wash, use perfume, have marital relations or wear leather e words we read in the machzor, the holiday prayer book, help us channel our shoes. It is a custom to wear white, symbolic of purity. feelings. e shofar awakens our hearts to the awesome power of the day and Yom Kippur begins with Kol Nidrei, expressing our timeless trumpets our acceptance of G-d as our Master. commitment to G-d. We ask for G-d’s forgiveness, enumerating our shortcom- Our actions on Rosh Hashanah set the tone for the year to come. ings with the resolve to strengthen our connection with Him. e prayers are During the Tashlich service, we symbolically “cast” our sins into the water. We phrased in the plural, for all Jews are considered one soul, responsible for each eat apples dipped in honey, wishing for a good and sweet year, and eat new fruits other. symbolizing new beginnings. is is re ected in the words that we say during Yom Kippur reveals the essence of the Jewish soul, a spark of G-d Rosh Hashanah, “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.” united with its Source. e nal prayer of Yom Kippur, when our judgment for the coming year is sealed, is called Ne’ilah, “closing the gate,” which culminates Checklist for Rosh Hashanah: with the nal sounding of the shofar. (See inside for more information) Candlelighting, both nights Checklist for Yom Kippur: Kiddush and festive meals, both nights and both days (See inside for more information) Apple dipped in honey, rst night Kapparot and charity, before Yom Kippur New fruit is enjoyed, second night Two festive meals, before the fast Hear the shofar Yahrzeit memorial candle is lit before Yom Kippur (if applicable) Visit a body of water for Tashlich Candlelighting, before sunset Fast, from before sundown until after nightfall Yizkor memorial prayers, during daytime services Break the fast after the Havdalah service, marking the end of the holiday Sukkot September 18-25 Shemini Atzeret/ Sukkot, the season of rejoicing, means “huts,” reminiscent of the temporary shelters in which the Jewish people dwelled in the desert. lso called the Festival of Ingathering, Sukkot is the time that the produce from the eld, orchard and Simchat Torah vineyard is collected. September 25 & 27 It is one of three Pilgrimage Festivals when Jews would travel to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, demonstrating their unity. We express this unity by Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are the culmination of the holidays of blessing the Four Kinds: e lulav (palm branch), etrog (citron), haddasim Tishrei. On Shemini Atzeret, which means “the eighth day that concludes the (myrtle) and aravot (willow). During the seven days of Sukkot, we eat our festival,” some customarily eat their meals in the sukkah. In the synagogue, we meals outdoors in the sukkah. e sukkah is the only mitzvah that encompasses dance Hakafot with the Torah—processions amid singing and dancing—and us, symbolizing the “clouds of glory,” which surrounded and protected the pray for rains of blessing. Simchat Torah, which means “rejoicing with the Jewish people upon leaving Egypt. Torah,” is celebrated with exuberant dancing. Completing the annual cycle of Hoshanah Rabbah, the last day of Sukkot, means “great salvation,” reading the Torah, we read the nal section of the Torah, after which we and marks the end of our judgment period, which began on Rosh Hashanah. immediately start to read it again. We traditionally tap the oor with a bundle of willow branches, and ask G-d to e rest of the year, we approach the Torah with serious study. On seal our inscription for a sweet year. Simchat Torah, we approach the Torah with joyful dance. is holiday empha- sizes that the Torah is the inheritance of every single Jew. By starting to read the Checklist for Sukkot: Torah anew, we demonstrate that learning never ends, especially when it comes (See inside for more information) to the Torah and its in nite wisdom. Candlelighting, rst two nights Kiddush and festive meals, rst two nights and rst two days Checklist for Shemini Atzeret/ Simchat Torah: Eat all meals in the sukkah (See inside for more information) Bless the Four Kinds each day, except Shabbat Candlelighting, both nights On Hoshanah Rabbah, eat festive meal and tap the aravot Kiddush and festive meals, both nights and both days (willow branches) Dance Hakafot, both nights and second day Yizkor memorial prayers, rst day The Shofar Teshuvah Your Personal Wake-up Call “Repentance” Blown both days of Rosh Hashanah, except Shabbat, Return to Sender and at the end of Yom Kippur. “After the blowing of the shofar, a new, more sublime Divine light descends, so sublime a light as has yet Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and never shone since the Creation of the world.” (Tanya) Yom Kippur. “Teshuvah redeems the Source of the soul from its exile One hundred sounds are blown from the shofar each day and returns the ow of the Divine manifestation to its of Rosh Hashanah. e shofar is a ram’s horn, the oldest proper place.” ( e Zohar) and most primitive of wind instruments, yet its call touches the innermost chords of the soul. Its sound is Although often translated as repentance, teshuvah really simple and plaintive—a cry from the heart, like that of a means “return”—a return to the true inner self that is always lost child for its parent. It is a call to evaluate our actions connected to its Source. e path of teshuvah begins with and improve our ways, as expressed in the verse: “Awake sincere regret for our transgressions and the resolve to sleepers from your sleep; slumberers. Arise from your abandon those ways. It is also the desire to come closer to slumber–examine your deeds, return and remember your G-d through prayer and increased performance of mitzvot, Creator.” particularly the giving of charity to the poor, which e shofar proclaims the coronation of G-d as “redeem” the soul from spiritual captivity. King of the Universe and brings to mind great events that involved a ram’s horn. After the binding of Isaac, Abraham sacri ced a ram in place of his son; this ram's horn was blown 363 years later when the Jewish people gathered at Sinai to receive the Torah; its horn will also herald the coming of Moshiach and the nal redemption of the Jewish people. Kol Nidrei Look at Our Hearts, Not Our Tashlich Clothes Fishing for Wisdom Heard the night of Yom Kippur. “Let our vows not be considered vows; let our oaths not Performed before sunset on the rst day of Rosh Hasha- be considered oaths.” (Kol Nidrei) nah (or second day, if rst occurs on Shabbat). “ e earth will be lled with the knowledge of G-d as the e rst prayer of Yom Kippur, as the sun is setting, is Kol waters cover the ocean oor.” (Tashlich liturgy) Nidrei, the cancellation of vows. e signi cance of this prayer dates back to the persecution of Jews during the Before sunset on the rst day of Rosh Hashanah, Tashlich Spanish Inquisition of the 15th Century, when Jews were (“cast away") is observed. We visit the bank of a river, lake, or forced to convert to Catholicism under the threat of death. any stretch of water containing live sh, and recite special Outwardly, the Jews behaved like their Spanish prayers. e words of the prophet Micah, which are recited at neighbors, but in private they remained devout. Once a year Tashlich, contain the meaning behind this custom: “[G-d] they would gather in secret, declaring Kol Nidrei to vow will cast our transgressions into the depth of the sea.” e their commitment to Judaism, despite their seemingly Kabbalah teaches that water symbolizes kindness, and sh Catholic lives. Kol Nidrei was their proclamation that their remind us of the ever-watchful eye of G-d’s providence. Fish external behavior was not who they were. have no eyelids, so their eyes are always open. Our souls are cloaked in external garments, e creatures of the sea symbolize unity with the which are simply not us. ough we may think, talk and act Divine. Righteous people are termed “ sh of the sea”—just as in ways incongruous to our Jewishness, that is not who we sh are encompassed by the sea, the righteous are absorbed in truly are. On Yom Kippur, we hope to transcend our outer the waters of Torah, completely united with G-d. garments and reach our inner souls.
High Holidays 5774 The Sukkah Dances with the Torah Seven Days Under His Roof Feel the Beat
Sukkot is a seven-day festival. Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. “It is tting that all of Israel should dwell in a single sukkah.” “ e Torah wants to circle the bimah and dance; since it cannot, (Talmud) we become its ‘feet,’ transporting the Torah around the reading table, just as feet transport the head.” (Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of A sukkah is an outdoor structure, where we dwell during the Festival of Lubavitch) Sukkot in symbolic demonstration of our faith in G-d's providence. Its roof is composed of vegetation such as evergreen branches, cornhusks All reserve disappears in the exuberant dancing of Simchat Torah. or bamboo stalks. “Sukkah is the only mitzvah into which a person Every Jew, learned and unsophisticated, feels a natural desire to take a enters with his muddy boots,” goes the Chassidic saying. e sukkah, Torah in his arms and dance. Simchat Torah taps a point in the soul its walls and roo ng, encompass us entirely. Our whole being—from that de es the di erences that exist between one Jew and another. our intellect and emotion down to the tips of our toes—is involved e source for this happiness is of course the Torah. Yet with this mitzvah. throughout the entire Hakafot dances, the Torah is never opened; we e Zohar teaches that on each of the seven days of Sukkot, dance holding it wrapped in its mantle. ough the Torah is usually we are joined in our sukkah by seven spiritual Ushpizin, honored associated with disciplined study, on Simchat Torah we approach it guests: Abraham, representing the divine se ra (attribute) of chesed, di erently, singing and dancing in a manner that bears no apparent kindness; Isaac, representing gevurah, restraint; Jacob, representing relationship to understanding. ti eret, beauty and balance; Moses representing netzach, eternity and We are lifted beyond the realm of our individual identities perseverance; Aaron, representing hod, splendor; Joseph, representing and become the “feet of the Torah.” ese celebrations reveal that our yesod, spiritual foundation, and King David, representing malchut, bond with G-d and the Torah is uncon ned by the limits of intellect. sovereignty. Moreover, this celebration anticipates the ultimate celebra- e sukkah encompasses its visitors in unison. In this way, tions that will accompany the coming of Moshiach and the advent of the sukkah reveals the simple and beautiful oneness of a people rooted the Era of the Redemption. May we merit it now. in the oneness of their Creator. When all of Israel dwells in a single sukkah, our unity transcends our di erences.
The Four Kinds All Four One and One Four All
Performed each day of Sukkot, except for Shabbat. “G-d says, ‘Let them be bound together in one bond, and these will atone for those.’” (Midrash)
e unity of the Jewish people is expressed by blessing the Four Kinds:
• The etrog (citron) has both a pleasant taste and smell, representing one who is both knowledgeable in Torah and proficient in the observance of mitzvot. • The lulav is the branch of the date palm, whose fruit is tasty but has no scent, representing one who is accomplished in Torah, though less so in mitzvot. • The hadas (myrtle branch) is tasteless but aromatic, representing one who, though lacking in Torah knowledge, is observant in mitzvot. • The tasteless and scentless aravah (willow branch) represents the individual who lacks in both Torah and mitzvot. When we are bound together, each individual makes up for that which is lacking in the others.
e Four Kinds also represent four personas within each individual: Lulav is the intellectual within, who does not allow feeling to cloud the purity of knowledge; hadas is the emotional self, where feelings comprise the highest ideal, even at the expense of intellect; etrog is the force that strives for balance of mind and heart, while aravah is the capacity for setting aside both intellect and feeling in commitment to a Higher ideal.
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Rosh Hashanah Sukkot Celebrating Our Potential An Endless Joy
Rosh Hashanah celebrates the creation of Adam e spiritual light we achieve and Eve. When Adam was created, his soul so during the High Holidays irradiated his being, that all the creatures wanted through prayer, meditation and to crown him as their creator. Adam corrected fasting is again achieved on them, saying, “Come, let us worship, let us bow Sukkot, but through joy. down and kneel before G-d our Maker” ( e What we accomplish Zohar). At that moment, he actualized the through blowing the shofar is universe’s potential—to become one with the now accomplishedby placing the Divine. s’chach branches on the roof of It is only through the creation of our sukkah. ( e word s’chach has Adam (humanity) that the separate elements of the numerical value of 100, equaling the universe can unite with one purpose. Only the amount of sounds blown from the we have the power to elevate physicality into shofar during Rosh Hashanah.) e seven something spiritual. When a ram’s horn is blown days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom on Rosh Hashanah, the animal kingdom is Kippur can elevate each day of the coming year; the elevated. When we make a blessing before eating seven days of Sukkot elevate the coming year with joy and spirituality. an apple dipped in honey, we elevate the organic e cloud of incense o ered in the Holy Temple on Yom Kippur is a manifestation of kingdom. On this day, we realize the potential the “clouds of glory” that protected the Jews leaving Egypt; a physical sukkah is the and responsibility we have as human beings. spiritual manifestation of these clouds. Joy is not logical; it is aboveour comprehension. Our Sages teach, “joy breaks all boundaries.” rough joy, Sukkot gives us the power to reach our spiritual potential, by breaking our intellectual boundaries.
Yom Kippur e Soul Essence
Yom Kippur has a special power, for whether Shemini Atzeret/ one repents or does not repent, Yom Kippur atones.” To quote Maimonides, “ e essence of Simchat Torah the day atones.” e soul has many levels. ough it is a spiritual entity, there is a level that Simply Divine is a ected by our physical transgressions. For this level of the soul, repentance is required to Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot are considered our engagement with G-d’s reattach it to G-dliness. Will. Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah constitute our wedding, the time of However, the essence of the soul is “Intimacy with the Divine.” literally one with G-d and cannot be a ected by A wedding brings two people together in happiness and ful llment. our physicality. On Yom Kippur, G-d reveals Simchat Torah means “the joy of the Torah,” because we bring joy to the Torah when this essence that is hidden throughout the year. we bring her into our lives. Our soul comes from the essence of the Divine; the Torah e Hebrew word kapparah has a is the manifestation of the Divine Will. It is only when the soul (clothed in a body) connotation of “scrubbing”— meaning that on adheres to the Torah, that the Divine Will is actualized and ful lled. Yom Kippur, we can scrub o our transgressions When we dance with the Torah on Simchat Torah, G-d’s essence and His and connect with our essence. Torah are reunited, bringing purpose and ful llment to each other. Jewish New Year). work in English. “My dear sweet G-d.” It just doesn’t happen. Every year I do this—blow shofar in the hospitals. Every year, at least one person cries. Because in English you don’t talk to G-d the is year there was a bubbeh who didn’t seem way a wife talks to her beloved husband, a so old. She was very with-it. e sight of a husband who went away on a distant journey shofar lled her with excitement. She poured and you never knew if he would return, and out to me memories of her childhood; it now you’re suddenly in his arms. Like a seemed the past had just come awake for her. mother talks to her small, sweet children, and She had grown up steeped in chassidic warmth like a daughter talks to her father who she and soul, and even here in Vancouver it had knows will never abandon her. All in one. In never left her. English there is no such thing. But in the Yiddish of her childhood, she could say it. She recited the blessing, and I began to blow the shofar softly but clearly. e tears began to For me, her cries smashed through the most come. I’m used to that already; I just keep profound journeys of the philosophers, going. But when I nished, that’s when it was popping them like a child pops bubbles in the obvious that G-d was there in the room. air, like shadows disappear in the sunshine. Because she was talking to Him. ey had no meaning here. ey are ideas. “Oy, zisseh G-tt! Tayereh, zisseh G-tt! Mein is is G-d. e real thing. is was zisseh G-tt!” revelation. Something the old bubbies had back there, back then. Something we had lost. She was crying and she was holding G-d in her Almost. hands. e hands of an old bubbeh holding an in nite, timeless G-d. I had to leave to go to the synagogue. She was still in tears. I discovered I was smiling. You’ll BY TZVI FREEMAN She called Him “ziss.” I had never heard that think I’m insensitive, but I was helpless before before. “Ziss” I had heard applied to desserts this deep, uplifting joy that just arose from and to grandchildren. e Psalms of David inside. and the Song of Songs talked about the Once, I had a divine revelation. Almighty in that way. But this was an old She cried. I was full of joy. Why shouldn’t I be? bubbeh. Her voice had that tone of love and I had just seen G-d face to face. Unzer zisseh It was on the holy day of Rosh Hashanah, but compassion, yet she was lled with awe. She G-tt. I wasn’t in the synagogue. I was in a hospital was crying wth sorrow, with joy, with pain, on that very wet morning, in a sterile and with longing . . . yet her words were sweet Rabbi Tzvi Freeman is the senior editor at depressing geriatrics rehab ward, where a few ecstasy. Chabad.org, and also heads the Ask e Rabbi old bubbies had gathered to hear the sounding team of the shofar (the ram’s horn sounded on the I can’t translate those words she said. It doesn’t HIGH HOLIDAYS
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is crumble looks beautiful when prepared in an oven-to-table dish. Interview with A Future Camp Counselor By Sara Bressler
I was pondering what I could say children. I was worried initially that being e rst day I brought Madeline to about Camp Gan Israel. I could tell around so many children, my daughter camp, I was feeling nervous, you about their amazing itinerary that would develop those bad social habits that shows me what running through all of the possible makes me wish I was twenty years plague so many of us throughout wonderful care they have catastrophes that could take place younger so that I could go too. I could childhood and adolescence (occasionally at camp, and the in the six hours my daughter would tell you about the exciting places they even adulthood). Instead it seems that personal be out of my sight. en when I visit, or the non-stop variety of whenever she interacts with another child, relationships they have walked her into the building, the activities they have to o er- but I she tells me all about her new friend, and formed with those in charge of their smile that spread over her face, as think there is more to it than that. how very interesting they are. care. she saw the gymnasium full of children running and laughing, was When trying to gure what I could Although I am not a camper, Camp Gan To my daughter’s usual repertoire of her priceless. at look of complete say, I decided to go right to my own Israel has inadvertently kept me in a very future career ambitions which include and utter excitement and elation little camper, my ve year old good habit. Every Friday at camp they doctor, rock star, veterinarian, and gets harder and harder to evoke as daughter Madeline. She sat across have a Shabbat party. ey eat pizza and restaurant owner; being a counselor at children get older. I remember just from me, her hands folded, looking make Challah for the children to bring camp has also been added. Of course a few years ago, this level of joy very astute and professional for her home and bake. Madeline comes home these ambitions of hers will change, one could be achieved simply by interview. “So Madeline,” I asked, with Challah dough formed into various day she will realize that there aren’t many playing peek-a-boo enthusiastically. using a pencil as a microphone, “what shapes, sometimes it’s somewhat of a people who can juggle a music career Now to get that look something is your favorite thing about camp?” braid, other times it varies from Challah with two di erent medical careers, and like a new puppy is typically dogs to un attering depictions of my still have time to make a menu, but I involved. Nearly every day that I She brie y looked up to the ceiling, gure in dough form. Sometimes in the have little doubt that she will hold on to drop her o at camp, I get to see looking as though she was deeply hustle and bustle of the day, the gentle the ambition to be a counselor at Camp that look as she struts into the Gan Israel for years. From the counselors contemplating the many possible gymnasium at camp. quietness of Shabbat is overlooked or angles to my question, and then she excused, but with a child full of anticipa- and the camp experience that she enjoys smiled and exclaimed, “All of it!” tion for lighting candles and having some so much, she is learning pride in herself On the way home from camp it’s not and her heritage, care for others, and every day that my daughter is able to quiet time with their family, there can be “You don’t have a favorite activity that no excuse. I have grown to look forward to more about the world around her, all in stay awake for the entire ten minute a fun and safe environment. So all in all, you do?” car ride. One indication that a child this time every week when I must hush “All of it is my favorite,” she stated it is no wonder when my ve year old is has had a great time is when they everything else in the world, and have matter-of-factly. asked about her camp experience, her spontaneously nap. When she wakes this sweet and simple bonding time with “Do you have a favorite counselor?” I response is up, she recounts the day’s activities, my daughter. prodded. tells me excitedly about the hilarious “all of it is my favorite!” “All of them are my favorite!” she antics of her fellow campers, and sings One day when I walked her to the door, I exclaimed. “Mama, do I have camp new songs in both Hebrew and was squeezing her hand extra tightly and tomorrow?” English that she learned from her she was squeezing mine. e door opened counselors. Children that I have and there was a counselor in her red “Yes.” She squealed with delight, and babysat, or playmates of my daughter, camp shirt “Hi Madeline!” she called then I lost all grip on her seasoned have told me about their peers at ve-year old attention span. So much and put her arms out. Madeline school and it always seems to be very dropped my hand like it was a hot coal for my informative interview. Being love-hate. Sure Jane is real nice, but that I was never a camper, and my and ran to the counselor’s open arms, it Megan is always saying mean things was like a scene you might see at Disney own little Gan Israel camper left me about me, and Amanda doesn’t like with very few words, all I can tell you world when the hyped-up child nally David one bit. is isn’t the case at gets to meet the real Cinderella. Yes, this about is what I see before and after Camp Gan Israel. Sure kids have ti s, camp; all of which has left me feeling wounded my parental ego, and made me it’s part of developing, but there is a consider showing my daughter her birth delighted at the wonderful care Camp unity and friendship there that is Gan Israel has to o er. certi cate so I could point out my name rarely present in programs for on there to her, but on the other hand it Souls in the Rain BY YOSEF Y. JACOBSON
If G-d is "perfect," as Judaism says, what The Bride Commits called because as the sun of Yom Kippur sets, the prompted Him to create the universe? What On the morning of Rosh Hashanah, a piercing gates of heaven close--with us inside. void was He seeking to ll? sound rises from the Earth: the cry of the shofar. During Ne'ilah, every soul is alone with G-d. It is a simple cry, expressing man's yearning to e answer provided in Jewish Mysticism is that connect with the Divine. The Celebration G-d desired marriage. Marriage necessitates the When the bride and groom exit their private existence of someone distinct from yourself with We have decided. Our answer is yes. room, the party begins. From Yom Kippur we whom to share your life, a union of husband and leap into the seven-day festival of Sukkot, wife. G-d chose humanity as His bride. The Wedding described in the Torah as "the time of our Joy." e wedding day arrives: Yom Kippur. A day What a marriage this has been--a roller coaster of described in the Kabbalah as "the time of ese days are lled with feasting and ecstatic romance, a ection, quarrels and estrangement. oneness" in which cosmic bride and groom forge happiness, celebrating the union between G-d In every generation, many counselors advocated a bond for eternity. and His people. a divorce while others proclaimed the Groom dead. Yet, the relationship has endured because In the Jewish tradition, bride and groom fast on Union both partners intrinsically know that they belong their wedding day. On the day we unite with e wedding feast is over. e guests and together. When all veils are removed, man G-d, we abstain from food or drink as well. e relatives have returned home. In a manifestly yearns for union with G-d. Talmud teaches that upon marriage, all the sins consummation of the relationship, bride and of the groom and bride are forgiven. groom experience intimacy for the rst time, According to the Kabbalah, the High Holiday their lives melded together as a husband and season is the annual wife. experience of the cosmic matrimony between Hence, following the G-d and humanity. e seven days of Sukkot, we ve key spiritual reach the zenith of the moments of the season High Holiday season: parallel the basic phases Shemini Atzeret and of a conventional Simchat Torah, described courtship and union. in the Kabbalah as the e holidays invite us to "time of intimacy with journey through this the Divine." During these process again and two charged days the joy rejuvenate the reaches its peak, as G-d relationship. and His people merge into a seamless whole. A The Courtship Divine seed is planted in e Hebrew month of each of our hearts. Elul precedes the High Holidays. is month is at's why we recite described in Chassidic special prayers for rain on teachings as a time when the festival of Shemini "the King goes out to Atzeret. What is rain? In the eld to meet with the midst of intimacy His people, greeting between heaven and them with kindness and earth, procreative drops tenderness, displaying a from heaven are absorbed, joyous face to all." We, fertilized and nurtured by in turn, "open our hearts mother-earth, which in to G-d." time will give birth to its botanical children. is time provides us with an opportunity to get at's why this day is called Yom Kippur, "the to know G-d. day of atonement." The Ordinary Month e honeymoon comes to an end and the The Groom Proposes e marriage ceremony begins with the stirring excitement begins to fade. Now the marriage e world goes haywire, says Master Kabbalist melody of Kol Nidre, in which we remove the becomes about caring for each other and Rabbi Issac Luriah. "During the night of Rosh power from vows and addictions that tie us demonstrating trust and loyalty as we work Hashanah," he writes, "the consciousness down. During these profound moments, we through the daily grind of life. animating the universe becomes frail and weak." attempt to free ourselves from compulsive e great Jewish mystics would, in fact, feel behavior and negative habits and let go of Out of the twelve months in the Jewish calendar, physically weak during the night of Rosh resentment, animosity, anger, fear and envy. the only one lacking a single festive day Hashanah. immediately follows the High Holiday season. e traditional Jewish marriage ceremony e Hebrew month of Cheshvan is the time to All of existence was brought into being for the culminates with the bride and groom entering a build a genuine relationship with our marriage sake of this proposed marriage. If we refuse Him, secluded room (cheder yichud in Hebrew) to Partner in our everyday lives. is is the time to then it was all in vain. e entire cosmos awaits spend time alone with each other. Yom Kippur discover the joy born out of a continous our decision. culminates with the Ne'ilah, or closure prayer, so relationship with G-d.
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BY EMILY LEVENSON, MSW, CHHC
“IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE, UNTIL IT’S DONE.”
impossible, but because it allows you I came across this fabulous quote yesterday from 1. Write it down. Writing down your dreams and to get more in touch with your dreams and goals. Nelson Mandela. And it got me thinking about aspirations makes them real. It gives shape and And allows you to see where your goals need a little what we mean when we say something is substance to your dreams and helps facilitate the tweaking. impossible. goal-setting process. Spend time each day writing about your efforts, setbacks and underlying Impossible is often code for: feelings. And then look back and see the progress It is all possible. • I am too afraid to try to make it possible, you've made. Next you're knee deep in self-doubt and misery, because I might fail. remind yourself of all the impossible things you • I don't know where to find the answer. 2. Shift your thinking. Instead of viewing your have done in your life. •I haven't developed the skill necessary to dreams through the filter of "that's impossible," accomplish the task. why not view it through the filter of "anything's Me? I'll remind myself of how I: • I don't know how to do it. possible!" It's amazing what happens when you • overcame a litany of food intolerances • I don't want to invest the time needed to do come at your dreams from a different perspective. • became a vegetarian (reluctantly), and then this. embraced it (happily) • I just plain don't want to. 3. Surround yourself with supportive people. If • put delicious dinners on the table nightly • I am not confident enough in my own abilities. everyone in your life tells you on a regular basis • wrote an ebook • I am afraid of what would happen if I that you can't do something or that you will never • found my soul mate succeeded! succeed, you are eventually going believe them. By • created a life and career that I love surrounding yourself with people who tell you that • recreated myself (17 times over) Look at the stories you have told yourself about you can (and will) succeed at whatever you set • traveled the world what you can and cannot do. Are they truly your mind to, things automatically become • trained a puppy impossible (doubtful), or is it code for something doable. • bought a house else (probably)? 4. Set realistic time lines. We often think What impossible things have you done lately? If I believed all of the things I told myself were something is impossible when we really mean that impossible, I'd still be suffering through miserable it can't be done overnight. By setting realistic time Emily Levenson is a Certi ed Holistic Health Coach migraines, stuck in a job that made me miserable, lines for our goals, we allow ourselves time to learn in Pittsburgh, PA. and a bona fide old maid with at least 40 cats. new skills, connect with the right people, and make slow and steady progress along the way. You can nd her online at emilylevenson.com, on Facebook at fb.com/emlevenson, and on Twitter via How to do the impossible. 5. Failure is part of the process. Sometimes, @emilylevenson. Here are 5 tips to go from "that's impossible" to failure is the best thing that can happen to you. thinking "anything is possible": Not because it proves that something is BY ANGELA GOLDSTEIN
For many, it might be second nature to put in an does the Lulav and Etrog mean to you? Maybe it is just early order for a kosher Lulav and Etrog kit. For others, a few branches and an odd little fruit that sit in the it’s a bit out of the ordinary to see friends and family corner of your Sukkah. Perhaps you’ve only seen members standing in a small hut (the ‘Sukkah’) shaking pictures of a Lulav and Etrog. Maybe you’ve never a bunch of branches and a strange looking lemon for gone one single Sukkot without a Lulav and Etrog in seven days. Nevertheless, no matter where you’re from your lifetime. or how you observe, the four kinds coming together for a little shake is a symbol of one very important thing: Whatever the case, Lulav and Etrog can mean so many unity. di erent things to many of us, but one thing holds true, it means one thing to all of us: we are all the same in How you ask? Well, let’s back up to our little story. If that we are all one with G-d. On Sukkot, at a baseball you are the person ordering the Lulav and Etrog, how game, at work, in the swimming pool. at one thing much di erent are you from your Jewish neighbor who will never change and we have good old Lulav and might have never completed this mitzvah or so much as Etrog to thank for reminding us of that one complex, stepped into a Sukkah on Sukkot? Is your neighbor any and yet so simple fact. less Jewish? Are you di erent or are you very much the same? is is what we learn from Lulav. So next Sukkot, step back from your Sukkah table and take a look around. Young and old, quiet and chatty, What are the four kinds? A palm branch (lulav), two simple and learned; whoever your guests are, may you willows (aravot), a minimum of three myrtles enjoy your Sukkot – your Lulav and Etrog – and feel (hadassim) and one citron (etrog). But really, what are comfortable in knowing that in that moment, and the four kinds and why are they so important to our every day, you all exist as one. We are all part of one big story? In truth, the four kinds symbolize the four family doing the best we can with our time here on di erent types of Jews, each with a di erent degree of earth. Torah knowledge and personal observance. On the holiday of Sukkot, we take these four kinds – for our As you shake and do the mitzvah of Lulav this year, take ancestors, our family, our neighbors, and ourselves – it in and feel the magic around you. Who knows, you and shake them together in all directions in a show of might even want to invite your neighbor over? solidarity. Bringing them together represents our unity as a nation despite our external di erences. Angela Goldstein is a fundraising professional with over 10 years of experience and currently works for a national If you’re reading this, then it means you’ve made it at health organization based in NYC. She is a mother of two least half way down the page and you’re still interested with an overall love for writing. – that’s good. Because now I’m going to ask you what High Holidays 5774 Happy Holidays! From:
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