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ROSH HASHANA TISHREI 1-2 SEPTEMBER 18 - 20 CANDLE LIGHTING 1ST NIGHT: 7:03 PM CANDLE LIGHTING 2ND NIGHT: AFTER 7:54 PM (from pre-existing flame) YOM TOV : 7:53 PM

WISHING THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND SWEET NEW YEAR!

The Shul - Lubavitch - An institution of The Lubavitcher , Menachem M. Schneerson (May his merit shield us) Over Thirty five Years of Serving the Communities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek and Surfside 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, Fl 33154 Tel: 305.868.1411 Fax: 305.861.2426 www.TheShul.org Email: [email protected] www.theshulpreschool.org www.cyscollege.org THE SHUL WEEKLY MAGAZINE EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK

NACHAS AT A GLANCE NACHAS AT A GLANCE CONTENTS Weekly Message: 3 The Shul Hebrew School began their exciting Thoughts on the Parsha - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Celebrating Shabbos: 4 - 5 “Bringing it home” program this week. Schedules, classes, articles & more... Everything Packages were delivered to every child you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Community Happenings: 6 -7 and they learned about Rosh Hashana and Sharing with your Shul Family Tashlich with exciting activities, and EVEN A Time to Pray: 8 Check out all the davening schedules and over zoom they all made their own locations throughout the week Honey cake Daily Study: 9 A complete guide to all classes and courses ofered at The Shul Inspiration, Insights & Ideas: 10 - 20 Bringing lessons to LIFE Get The Picture 21 - 22 The full scoop on all the great events around town In a Woman’s World 23 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman French Connection 24 Reflexions sur la Paracha Latin Link 25 Reflexion Semanal Numbers To Know 26 Contacts at The Shul Get The Picture 27 - 28 The full scoop on all the great events around town ROSH HASHANA MESSAGE FROM THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE - RABBI MENACHEM M. WHEN DO WE CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR?

By the Grace of G-d level of human quality. First Day of Selichoth 5713 [September 6, 1953] Rosh Hashanah, and the Ten Days , N. Y. of Repentance introducing the new year, is the time for self evaluation To my brethren, everywhere and mature reflection on the profound G-d bless you all lessons of these solemn days:

Greeting and Blessing: Just as the world, all the world, begins its true existence, an existence On the threshold of the New Year, may befitting the purpose of its creation, it bring blessings to us all, I send you from the day Man was created, who my prayerful wishes for a good and immediately after coming to life pleasant year, materially and spiritually. proclaimed the sovereignty of the Creator to all the universe: “Come, let Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of us worship, let us bow down and kneel a new year – 5714 – since the Creation, before G-d our Maker” inspiring the a new date in the cycle of time, and whole universe with this call (Zohar everyone hopes and prays that it will I, 221b; Pirkei d’Rabbi Elazar, ch. 11), also be the beginning of a new era in one’s personal life, one thereby making all the universe an abode for the Divine that is “good and sweet” materially and spiritually. Presence and carrying out the inner purpose of the Creation.

It is significant that the anniversary of the Creation is not So each and every individual must realize that his whole celebrated on the first day of Creation, but on the sixth, the essence and purpose consists in the predominance of the day when Man was created. Although all other living things true human element of his being and the ‘humanization’ of making up our vast universe – the inanimate, vegetable and the inanimate, vegetable and animal parts of which he is living creatures – preceded the creation of Man, as is related composed. It is not enough, not enough at all, if part of his in the Torah, in the first chapter of Genesis, nevertheless it is time and effort correspond to the behavior of a true human on the anniversary of Man’s creation that we celebrate Rosh being; it is absolutely necessary that the ‘man’ should Hashanah, and on this day we say, “This is the day of the inspire, sublimate, elevate and sanctify all his component beginning of Thy works!” parts, including the animal, vegetable and inanimate, in order that they too, respond to the call, “Come, let us worship, Herein lies a profound lesson for every one of us: let us bow down and kneel before G-d, our Maker.” Such a life in accordance with the commands of the Creator, a life Man, the microcosm (‘small world’) contains within him all the in accordance with the Torah and Mitzvoth which G-d, our ‘Four Kingdoms’ into which the macrocosm, the universe at Maker, has given us, and only such a life, justifies one’s own large, is divided. In the course of his life man passes through existence, and justifies thereby also the Creation. the stages of inanimate, vegetable and animated existence until he reaches maturity and begins to live a rational and With the traditional blessing of Kesivo VaChasimo Toivo [to spiritual life of a human being. Even then, in his daily life, he be inscribed and sealed for a good year] may experience a varied existence, as reflected in his deeds and actions: Part of the time he may be regarded in the I remain category of the inanimate; at other times he may vegetate, or live an animated existence; but a true human being he is Cordially yours, when his activities give evidence of his intellect and spiritual qualities. Moreover, the name ‘man’ is justified only then, Menachem M. Schneerson when also those areas of one’s life and activities which correspond to the animal, vegetable and even inanimate ‘kingdoms’ are sublimated, elevated and sanctified to the 3 THOUGHTS ON THE PARSHA FROM RABBI ROSH HASHANA

verything is by Divine Providence. It’s time to get out of the doldrums and know that As I was prepared this year will be one of Hashem showing us in a Eto write my weekly revealed manner that He loves us and will bring us column especially on the best, healthiest, peaceful, prosperous and joyous this last day of 5780, year ever. I was made aware of a talk the Rebbe gave Let’s get ready for a true redemption spiritually and in 5751 / 1991 which materially, as we are all inscribed and sealed for the radically transformed my sweetest year. approach to 5781. We send our love on behalf of the entire Shul team. 1991 was a difficult time, the Gulf war pending and about to erupt, sabre rattling was the pronounced sound in the world as we faced scud missiles, gas masks, and maniacal forces cast a state of fear and a sense of insecurity over the entire globe. Our Holy Land was in the crosshairs of the mortal enemy’s sights. Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar

As the Rebbe often related to given years by their Hebrew acronym, 5751 was known as “the year of He . תהא שנת אראנו נפלאות”revealed wonders predicted a year of amazing miracles and they came to pass. Israel, the Rebbe said, was the safest place in the world. And so it was – no scuds, no gas masks, America’s decisive victory and the transformation from dismal outlook and expectation to a positive reality.

תשפאThen the Rebbe segued into the acronym for 81 in 5781) which based on grammatical etymology, textual verses, Kabalistic and Chasidic insights, can mean and refer to diminishment, negativity, anger, disconnect, and the very abyss in the darkness of exile. This refers to the dark and challenging state that the world finds itself in now, with clouds of doubt hovering over every aspect of so many lives. for 81 – – Af – also means אף The same acronym addition, increase, more, higher, better – and the portent of the ultimate redemption.

תהא שנת We should ready for the real 5781 the year of revealed wonderous“ – פלאות אראנו miracles”. 4 THE MONTH OF TISHREI EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS

YOM TOV SCHEDULE Holiday Ends/Havdala 7:53 PM

Tzom Gedalia - Monday, Sept. 21 Fast Begins: 5:57 am Fast Ends at 7:41 pm

Shabbos Shuva - Friday, September 25 Candle Lighting 6:55 PM Mincha 6:55 pm Evening Services: 7:25 pm

Rosh Hashanah Eve - Friday, Sept. 18 Shabbos Shuva - Shabbos September 26 Candle Lighting 7:03 pm Morning Services: 9:00 am Mincha 7:05 PM Mincha 6:50 pm Ends at 7:46 pm Maariv 7:45 PM B”H

Rosh Hashanah 1st Day - Saturday, Sept. 19 Morning Services: 6:30 am KAPOROS 8:00 am Erev Yom Kippur September 24 & 27

9:00 am (Sephardic) Please Text (786) 520-6590 to reserve 11:00 am ​ ​ or email [email protected] Mincha 7:00 pm Web: miamikaporos.squarespace.com to guarantee your chicken/s Evening Services: 7:50 pm All Orders Must be Prepaid Candle lighting After 7:54 PM (from existing fame)

Rosh Hashanah 2nd Day - Sunday, September 20 The Shul of Bal Harbour Morning Services: 6:30 am 9540 Collins Avenue 8:00 am Thursday, September. 24 6:00 pm - 8:00p m Shechitah will be taking place later at Landow Yeshivah 9:00 am (Sephardic) 11:00 am Landow Yeshivah Shofar Sounding: 8:00 am 1140 Alton Rd, Miami Beach Thursday, September. 24 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm 9:30 am Sunday, September. 27 6:00 am – 8:30 am 12:30 pm There will be a Shochet ONLY during these times

Children Program 5:30 pm Cost for a chicken is $23

Mincha 6:30 pm K’sivah V’chasima Tova! The chickens will be cleaned koshered and given out to the needy Tashlich Service: 6:45 pm If you know of anyone who is needy please call (786) 520-6590 Evening Services: 7:45 pm

5 ROSH HASHANA IN PICTURES Test your YOM TOV knowledge. Can you tell the story using the pictures below

HALACHIC TIMES REFUAH SHLEIMAH If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would like to BASED ON TIMES FOR SEPTEMBER 23 keep the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered.

MEN WOMEN Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:58 am Yehonatan HaLevi ben Malka Esther Yocheved bas Raizel Earliest Talit & Tefllin 6:28 am Eliezer ben Sarah Bracha Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 7:10 am Aharon ben Beylah Shima Leah bas Gittel (Earliest Amidah) Meyer Eliezer ben Sarah Sarah Libke bas Baile Menachem Mendel ben Sara Chana Bayla bas Masha Latest Shema 10:09 am Yehoshua ben Tamara Rina Chaya Miriam bas Leah Zman Tfllah 11:10 am Isaac Gilbert ben Nelly Esther Bracha Chatzot / Midday 1:12 pm Bentzion ben Nomi Rachel Genya Baila bas Gisela Margalite Sonia Simcha bat Sultana Earliest Mincha 1:43 pm Eber Avraham ben Fruma Tzipora Pnina bas Slava Plag HaMincha 6:03 pm Esther Feige bas Krandel Shekiah / Sunset 7:15 pm Shlomo Yaakov ben Chaya Chaya Miriam Yehudit bat Sarah Rochel Chava (Preferable latest time for Mincha) Chaim Zelig Ben Eidel Clara bat Corina Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 7:39 pm Ari ben Na’ama Rivka bat Shoshana (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv) Tzvi Yitzchak ben Chaya Miriam bat Risha Raizel Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel Times taken from www.chabad.org Please note that during the week times may Vary by a minute or two.

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SHABBAT / YOMTOV MESSAGE FROM RABBI MASSRI SCHEDULE Malchuyot, Zichronot, and Shofarot uch of the focus of the day of Rosh Hashana, both in terms of time and energy, is on tefilla. At the center of the tefillot is Musaf, FRIDAY NIGHT SEPTEMBER 18 and at the heart of Musaf there are three very unique berachot: MMalchuyot, Zichronot, and Shofarot. What are the main themes of these MINCHA/ARVIT AT THE SHUL: 7:00 PM three berachot and how do they find expression in the activities of the day? REGULAR CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:03 PM Malchuyot is a vehicle to reconfirm the coronation of Hashem as King SHKIAH (SUNSET): 7:20 PM of the Universe, on this day that commemorates the beginning of the world’s existence. We invoke the concept of kingdom, the most TZET HAKOCHAVIM: 8:14 PM grand and powerful position in human hierarchy, in order to try to capture something of the awe-inspiring nature of Hashem. Of course, the metaphor can take us only so far, as Hashem’s grandeur and SHABBAT, SEPTEMBER 19 omnipotence cannot be fully described in human terms or grasped by the human mind. SHACHARIT AT THE SHUL: 9:00 AM After reaching some type of picture of Hashem’s greatness, we are hit with the question: could Someone so great be interested by and involved NETZ HACHAMA: 7:08 AM in the lives of lowly humans? Through the p’sukim in Zichronot, we are reminded that Hashem was and will continue to be involved in the ZMAN KERIAT SHEMA: 9:37 AM course of human history. He recalled and acted mercifully with Noach in the ark and with Bnei Yisrael in the depths of their servitude in Egypt MINCHA/ARVIT AT THE SHUL: 6:20 PM and remembers for our benefit our belief in Him as we ventured out to the wilderness. CLASS BY RABBI MASSRI: 7:20 PM Other questions still linger on. He exists and leads us through history. ARVIT AT THE SHUL: 7:45 PM But isn’t He too distanced to communicate with? To deal with this question, we are introduced to an ancient yet contemporary form of EARLIEST TIME TO PREPARE FOOD communication, the precursor l’havdil to the dots and dashes of Morse Code, which far surpasses even the codes of modern computers in its AND CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:54 PM power. That is described in Shofarot. Hashem has used the shofar to communicate with us at Har Sinai and He has instructed us to use it communicate with Him. The sound of the shofar contains our emotions, SUNDAY, SUPTEMBER 20 in sounds that are more profound and versatile than words could ever be. SHACHARIT: 8:30 AM It is interesting that each of the three elements is the center of a different N ETZ HACHAMA: 7:08 AM part of the day’s religious activities. Malchuyot is the center of our tefillot, taking over the main beracha of the day (“melech ...mekadesh ZMAN KERIAT SHEMA: 9:37 AM ...v’yom hazikaron”) and appearing prominently in many of our piyutim. Zichronot is highlighted in the Torah reading, where we read of Hashem’s SHOFAR: 11:00 AM remembering Sarah and the akeidat Yitzchak, two of the main themes of that beracha. Of course, Shofarot is carried out in the main, active Torah MINCHA/ARVIT: 6:50 PM mitzva and the only motif of the day that the Torah mentions explicitly, the blowing of the shofar (Bamidbar 29:1). Thus, the three pillars of our YOM TOV ENDS: 7:52 PM spiritual existence, our tefilla (“service of the heart”), Torah study, and our performance of mitzvot, are all utilized to give proper expression to the RABENU TAM: 8:26 PM concepts of the day. Ketiva VeChatima Tovah!!

Rabbi Yair Massri

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BIRTHDAYS YAHRTZEITS 1 Tishrei Mrs. Sara Ben-Chetrit 1 Tishrei Matilda Mesauda obm 1 Tishrei Mr. Bernard Greenblatt Mother of Mr. Joseph Bouhnik 1 Tishrei Mrs. Sidonia Greenblatt 1 Tishrei Malca obm 1 Tishrei Rabbi Shimshon Tzubeli Mother of Mr. Steven Schwartz 2 Tishrei Mr. Moshe Behar 1 Tishrei Reuven Hirsch ben Meyer Yisroel HaLavi obm 2 Tishrei Mrs. Gila Dooreck Aloni Father of Mr. Jerold Blumstein and 2 Tishrei Mrs. Dana Friedman Judge Mark Blumstein 2 Tishrei Mr. Edward Rosengarten 1 Tishrei Tzvi ben Israel obm 2 Tishrei Dr. Stephen Robert Scheinman Father of Mrs. Marlene Colonomos 2 Tishrei Mrs. Mali Schwartz 2 Tishrei Aryeh Yehuda Leib ben Shmuel obm 3 Tishrei Mr. Isaie Bouhadana Grandfather of Mr. Raphael Adouth 3 Tishrei Mrs. Roslyn Jafe 2 Tishrei Michael Daniel haKohen ben 3 Tishrei Mr. Paul Jaimovich Mordecai ha Kohen obm 3 Tishrei Mr. Robert Werner Father of Mrs. Sandra Moteles 4 Tishrei Mr. Daniel Amishay 2 Tishrei Chaya Pearl bas Benyamin obm 4 Tishrei Mr. Steven Dekelbaum Mother of Mr. Irving Hoine 4 Tishrei Mrs. Divi Greisman 3 Tishrei Efraim Tzvi ben Avrohom Moshe obm 4 Tishrei Mrs. Lisa M. Groisman Father of Mr. Irwin Tauber 4 Tishrei Mr. Alex Gross 3 Tishrei Tessie obm 4 Tishrei Mrs. Cara Roller Aunt of Mr. Elias Sussman 4 Tishrei Mr. Edgar Weingarten 4 Tishrei Chaya Freida bas Osher Anshel obm 5 Tishrei Mr. Ian Brenner Grandmother of Mr. Isi Halberthal 5 Tishrei Mr. Brody Melvin Dozoretz 4 Tishrei Heschel obm 5 Tishrei Mr. Samuel Dror Grandfather of Mrs. Amy Wax 5 Tishrei Ms. Marta Feigenbaum 4 Tishrei Shmuel ben Yakov obm 5 Tishrei Mr. Ighal Goldfarb Father of Mrs. Iris Joy Herssein 5 Tishrei Ms. Pamela Laulicht 5 Tishrei Abraham Chaim ben Zvi Menachem Halevi obm 5 Tishrei Mr. Asher Mamane Father-in-law of Mrs. Chana Weinbaum 6 Tishrei Mr. Jacky Camhi 5 Tishrei Yittel obm 6 Tishrei Mr. Meir Izak Uncle of Mr. Barry Wax 6 Tishrei Mrs. Sarah Klein 5 Tishrei Josefa bas Aryeh Leib obm 6 Tishrei Mr. Idel Woldenberg Grandmother of Mrs. Debbie Falic 7 Tishrei Mr. Ariel Haroush 5 Tishrei Machluf ben Yosseph obm 7 Tishrei Rabbi Binyomin Lisbon Brother of Mr. Raphael Ammar 7 Tishrei Ms. Esther Perez 5 Tishrei Natan ben Yechiel obm Father of Mrs. Lana R. Weintraub 5 Tishrei Riva bas Simcha obm Grandmother of Mr. Claudio Stivelman KID’S BIRTHDAYS 6 Tishrei Miriam bas Aryeh obm 1 Tishrei Sheina Messoda Banon Mother of Mr. David Lichter 4 Tishrei Menucha Rochel Katan 6 Tishrei Sima Chaya bas Ita obm 5 Tishrei Leon Sragowicz Mother of Dr. Jesse Viner 6 Tishrei Zevi Edelkopf 7 Tishrei Abraham Shlomo ben Shemtov obm 6 Tishrei Menachem Mendel Lew Father of Mr. Santos Chocron 7 Tishrei Chaya Esther bas Yitzchak obm Mother of Dr. Nancy Scheinman 7 Tishrei Chaya Sara obm Mother of Mr. Sheldon Lisbon 7 Tishrei Estherina bas Rivka obm ANNIVERSARIES Mother of Mr. Isaac Gilbert Franco Mr. & Mrs. Michael and Galina Weiss 7 Tishrei Riva bas Cahim obm Mother of Mrs. Rosita Zelcer CONDOLENCES MAZAL TOV Heartfelt Condolences to Mrs. Esther Kazarnovsky & Mr. Mazal Tov to Leon and Miriam Weinschneider on the Leon Schenker on the passing of their beloved mother Mrs. engagement of their daughter Blima to Moe Friedman son Hannah Schenker obm May her dear soul be bound with of Yuda and Toby Friedman of Brooklyn NY the Eternal Bond of Life and may the family be comforted amongst the mourners of Zion and . 10 COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS SHARING WITH YOUR SHUL FAMILY

TISHREI LIGHT & POWER Mr. & Mrs. Leon Franco Ms. Beth F. Salzberg Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Givner Mr. Gad Yigal Sassi Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & Havdalah Mr. & Mrs. Dan Goldfarb Mr. Solomon Scharf for the month of Tishrei is Kindly Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Abi Goldshtein Mrs. Esty Scheiner Mr. Sidney (Shaya) Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schlachet Mr. & Mrs. Levi Green Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schnapp Yanky, Odelia , Mr. & Mrs. Sam Greenwald Rabbi & Mrs. Moshe Schneider Naomi , Mayer and Eli Weiss Mr. & Mrs. Josh Greisman Mr. & Mrs. Shea Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Alex Gross Rabbi & Mrs. Aryeh Wishing everyone healthy, Mr. & Mrs. Sharon Hakmon Schottenstein happy &sweet new year ! Mr. & Mrs. Mendy Halberstam Mr. & Mrs. David Schottenstein Mr. & Mrs. Isi Halberthal Mr. & Mrs. Robert “Those who establish for prayer and those who come there to pray, Mr. & Mrs. Shmuel Hazan Schottenstein those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Jaimovich Mrs. Rose Schreiber and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jaimovich Mr. Saran Schroeder who occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, Mr. & Mrs. Shlomie Katan Mr. & Mrs. Jorge Schvetz blessed be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal Mr. & Mrs. Jacky Koenig Mr. & Mrs. Meyer Seewald Dr. & Mrs. Richard Koffler Mr. & Ms. Ytamar Segall their entire body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all Mr. & Mrs. Aviv Kordich Ms. Bela Shamsiev their endeavors, together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Mr. Moshe Lax Mr. & Mrs. Zalman Shapiro Ms. Keren Levy Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Sheftel Mr. & Mrs. Moshe Lew Mr. & Mrs. Bentzy Shemtov Mr. & Mrs. Max Lichy Mr. & Mrs. Effi Shmuel Rabbi & Mrs. Aaron Lipskar Dr. & Mrs. Bernard A. Shuster THANKS TO OUR DONORS Rabbi & Mrs. Binyomin Lisbon Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Sokol Mr. & Mrs. William Lustgarten Mr. Max Spielberg We sincerely thank the following members and supporters of The Shul Mr. Rafi Maman Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Sredni for donations received between 09/08/20 and 09/14/20 Alexander Mantofel Mr. & Mrs. Eric Stein We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Dr. & Dr. Raul Mitrani Dr. Rita Steiner Mr. Spencer Moore Mr. & Mrs. Yaakov Saidoff Mr. Claude Morali Mr. Michael Swisa Mr. & Mrs. Jackie Abraham Mr. & Mrs. Salomon Btesh Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan More Mr. & Mrs. Moris Tabacinic Mr. & Mrs. Dov Aizenman Mr. & Mrs. Jordan Bublick Mr. & Mrs. Temuri Nanikashvili Mr. & Mrs. Yehuda Taxi Mr. & Mrs. Raphael Ammar Mrs. Sarah Libke Caplin Dr. & Mrs. Zev Neuwirth VCN Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Amram Mr. Nicolas Chami Mr. & Mrs. Isser New Dr. & Dr. Jesse Viner Mr. Gabriel Apoj Pascal Mr. Raul Chami Mr. & Mrs. Jaime Peisach Ms. Esther Vlosky Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Azari Mr. Mario Chomer Mr. & Mrs. Shlomo Peretz Mr. & Mrs. Ezzy Wasserman Dr. & Mrs. Jonah Bardos Ms. Iliana Cogan Rabbi & Mrs. Mansfred M. Mr. Jacky Werta Dr. Hana Barouk Mr. John Cogan Rechtschaffen Mr. & Mrs. David Wolf Mr. Barak Ben Shitrit Dr. & Mrs. Brad Kenneth Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Edward Rosengarten Rabbi & Mrs. Aryeh Wuensch Mr. & Mrs. David Benichou Mr. & Mrs. Emilio Liba Cohen Mr. Arik Roshanzamir Mr. Jose Yankelevitch Mr. & Mrs. Yonathan Berdugo Ms. Patricia Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Yosef Mr. Chaim Berkowitz Ms. Lucrezzia Davidson Roshanzamir Mr. & Mrs. Sergio Zelcer Mrs. Estela Berry Mr. & Mrs. Allen Davoudpour Mr. Andrew Roth Mr. & Mrs. Adam Ziefer Mr. & Mrs. Laiby Best Dr. & Mrs. Brian Dooreck Mr. Chaim Rubashkin Mr. & Mrs. Michael Blisko Mr. & Mrs. Dovid Duchman Ms. Vivi Rubinstein Dr. & Mrs. Michael Bogachek Mr. & Mrs. Zalman Duchman Mr. & Mrs. Jason Saka Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Haim Mr. & Mrs. Steven M. Dunn Borochoff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Elchadif Mr. & Mrs. Isaie Bouhadana Mr. Shalom Elul Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Bouhnik Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell Feldman Mr. & Mrs. Levi Boymelgreen Mr. & Mrs. Anton Fischman 11 DAILY WISDOM Inspiring insights on the Torah

Shabbos, 1 Tishrei Sunday, 2 Tishrei G-d’s Guide to Life Heaven on Earth [ said to the Jewish people,] “For [the [G-d said,] “Listen, O heaven . . . Hear, O earth.” Deuteronomy 32:1 Torah] is not an unrewarding pursuit for you; rather, it is your very life.” Deuteronomy 32:47 G-d addressed both heaven and earth in order to teach us that we are called upon to harmonize the two. The Torah The Torah contains all the instructions and lessons originates in heaven and consists of G-d’s vision for the that every individual needs in order to live his or her perfection of the world. By spreading the knowledge of the life in accordance with G-d’s expectations. This is as it should be, for the Torah is the “blueprint” that Torah to ourselves and to others, we are bringing heaven G-d used when He created the world. If for some down to earth. By reshaping both our own lives and the reason we are not sure what the Torah requires of lives of others in accordance with the Torah’s teachings, us in a specific situation, we are bidden to consult we are bringing life on earth up to heaven. When we have with qualified Torah scholars, who have learned from made life into “heaven on earth” – reconciling the division their own teachers how to correctly apply the Torah’s between the two – heaven and earth testify how we have wisdom to our lives. fulfilled our mission in life.

Thus, the literal meaning of this verse is, “For it is not an empty thing from you,” which, the sages of the Talmud tell us, means, “If you find a situation in life that seems empty of – i.e., lacking – the Torah’s direction, it is because of you – i.e., your own inability to apply the Torah’s wisdom to your life.” In such cases, the Torah directs us to seek its application from our teachers and mentors.

Monday, 3 Tishrei Tuesday, 4 Tishrei Maintaining Focus The Challenge of Wealth [Moses said,] “[G-d] made [the Jewish people] [Moses said,] “The [formerly] upright people surround Him [by commanding them to camp became fat and kicked.” Deuteronomy 32:15 around the Tabernacle].” Deuteronomy 32:10 There is nothing wrong with wealth per se, as long as we By studying the Torah regularly, we construct a take the necessary steps to ensure that we retain the “Tabernacle,” i.e., a dwelling for G-d, in our personal proper perspective. We should answer the challenge of lives. By commanding the Jewish people to encamp wealth by striving all the more to refine our human-animal around the Tabernacle, G-d teaches us that we natures, taking care not to indulge in excess mundane should center our lives around this inner sanctuary. gratification – material or cultural. We can then refine the The innermost point of the Tabernacle was the Ark, world, as well, by shining the light of the Torah outward, which housed the Tablets of the Covenant, i.e., the using the blessings of wealth for their intended purposes: Torah. When the Torah is the focal point around which to support and further the study of the Torah and the our lives revolve, it can positively affect all facets of dissemination of Judaism. our lives, as it is meant to. Furthermore, once the Torah is illuminating and influencing our lives as If we encounter someone who has “gotten fat and it is meant to, its influence can spread still further kicked,” we should not give up hope, since even the most outward, enlightening and refining all humanity and disinterested Jew remains a Jew at heart, and the light of the entire world. truth will penetrate even the hardest barrier.

12 Wednesday, 5 Tishrei G-d’s Children [Moses said that G-d would say,] “They are children who [act] uneducated.” Deuteronomy 32:20 By referring to us as His “children,” G-d let it be known that He would never sever His relationship with us, and that we can never sever our relationship with Him – just as parents can never sever themselves from their children, and children can never sever themselves from their parents. The relationship between parents and their children is so essential, so strong, that no matter how seriously it may be tested, in the final analysis it will always overcome any behavior that might seem to threaten it.

It is therefore pointless to try to hide or flee from this relationship, and senseless to think that it can ever be forfeited. G-d’s love for us is infinitely stronger than anything we may have done to weaken it.

Thursday, 6 Tishrei Friday, 7 Tishrei

Healing the World When the Messiah Comes [G-d said,] “I strike and I heal.” Deuteronomy 32:39 [Moses addressed the non-Jews:] “Nations! Praise [G-d] for His people, [the Jews]!” The Hebrew word for “strike” (machatzti) is related to the word Deuteronomy 32:43 for “barrier” or “partition” (mechitzah). The sickness that the When the Messianic Redemption occurs, truth will world presently suffers from is the artificial barrier between no longer be so easily confused with falsehood. It the spiritual and the material. The difficulty we experience in will become clear to the whole world why G-d chose trying to sense the spiritual in what we do or in trying to apply the Jews to be His people. Our role as the priests our inspiration to our daily lives is the true definition of exile. In and teachers of humanity will finally be universally acknowledged, and our redeeming contributions the Messianic era, G-d will heal this split. The dividing barrier to human civilization will be fully appreciated. The will be transformed into a connecting doorway, enabling the nations of the world will then do whatever they can spiritual and the material to once again unite. This is how evil to aid the Jews in their Divine mission of bringing the will be eliminated in the future: G-d will be so revealed that world to its fullest potential. evil – the denial of G-d – will simply cease to exist. Educating the world to appreciate not only G-d but G-d’s people is therefore an integral part of preparing It follows that the way to hasten the Messianic era is by the world for the Redemption and hastening it. taking care to refine even the lowest aspects of our material lives, infusing them with as much spirituality as we can. By living “messianic” lives in this way, we are doing our part to nullify the exile.

13 ROSH HASHANA MESSAGES AT ONE WITH THE KING

here is nothing arbitrary about that is not at all dependent a name given in the Holy on our deeds. For this reason, Tongue: the very letters that even a person who has failed Tconstitute such a name disclose to establish a connection with the intrinsic nature of the entity G-d through mitzvos or who named. The name of the New Year has obstructed that connection festival, “Rosh HaShanah,” literally by his conduct, is still capable of means not “beginning of the year,” feeling a desire to return to Him. but “head of the year.” I.e., the relationship of Rosh HaShanah to A person’s desire to return to the other days of the year parallels G-d evokes a response from the relationship of the head to the Him. Like a father who loves other organs of the body. his children regardless of their conduct, G-d maintains a bond There are three dimensions to the with us which continues even relationship between the head and when our conduct appears to the body. First, the brain controls draw us away from Him. And the functioning of the body as when a person turns to G-d in a whole, as well as that of its teshuvah, this bond surfaces individual organs. Second, the life- and makes its presence felt. energy of all the organs is centered in the brain, each of whose Since the connection to G-d components is connected to one established through teshuvah of the organs. Finally, the brain is is deeper than that which the seat of the power of thought, is established through the the highest of human faculties. observance of mitzvos, it can compensate for any deficiencies the essence of G-d. Our divine service on Rosh HaShanah is in our observance of the mitzvos. characterized by spiritual parallels to each Three Levels of Connection Nothing can block the expression of this of these three physical functions. These three elements of Rosh deep connection we share with G-d. HaShanah are related to three levels First, on Rosh HaShanah we resolve c. Nevertheless, despite the depth of of connection with G-d. to advance in all aspects of our Torah the connection with G-d established observance, and the resolutions a. The first bond is established through teshuvah, a certain distance undertaken at this time influence the through Torah observance. Because remains between man and G-d. In fact, quality of our divine service throughout the G-d’s will is manifest in the Torah it is our feeling of separation from Him coming year. and its mitzvos, by observing them that motivates our desire to return to we connect our thoughts, words and Him. By contrast, our willingness to Second, with Rosh HaShanah we begin actions with Him. accept G-d as King expresses the idea the Ten Days of Teshuvah (usually of man’s absolute bond with G-d. Man translated “repentance”; better: “return”). b. There is, however, a second and accepts G-d’s sovereignty because he Since teshuvah comprises all the other deeper bond with G-d. For while it cannot conceive of any alternative; he mitzvos, it can atone for deficiencies in the is true that observance of mitzvos cannot conceive of the possibility of observance of any of the mitzvos. establishes a connection with G-d, living without a King. the conditions of this relationship Finally, the divine service of Rosh HaShanah presuppose that the individual (This understanding of the King-subject involves a level of absolute connection is a separate entity who desires relationship also applies to G-d. G-d, between man and G-d. Our Sages3 teach to connect to G-d through this so to speak, cannot conceive of being that on Rosh HaShanah G-d asks man to observance. Teshuvah, by contrast, without subjects. It is for this reason “accept Me as King over you,” and in fact involves a bond which relates man that He turns to man and asks of him the recognition of G-d’s sovereignty is to G-d directly, without the medium to “accept Me as King over you.”) a major theme of the Rosh HaShanah of mitzvos. service. This act of recognition establishes Accepting G-d’s Sovereignty a bond between the essence of man and Each of us shares a bond with G-d Our Sages teach that G-d tells man, 14 “Accept My sovereignty and then of koh. Its reality is undeniable, but its accept My decrees.” The connection HOW DO interpretation is obscure. with G-d which is established through observing the mitzvos (“My decrees”) WE DEFINE Significance becomes possible only is only possible after His sovereignty with the arrival of humanity. We ascribe has been established. Even teshuvah OTHERS? meaning to make sense of—to clarify—a is possible only after G-d’s sovereignty By Eli Block preexisting reality. Adam’s first activity on has been established. For the essence earth was to give names to the animals. t is always a question of interpretation. That is what people do. They define things, of teshuvah is regret over one’s past The artist’s stroke and dancer’s step, a conduct and a firm resolution to make distinctions, and assign value. So child’s scanning of a mother’s face: are all creation leaves the realm of ambiguity and fulfill G-d’s will in the future, and this Iacts of construal. Everyone witnesses the comes into sharp relief when people begin presupposes an existing subject-king sun rise and set. Yet, one calls it beautiful; relationship. to interpret. If G-d desires to be discovered another says it is blinding. We are barraged in creation, then the “beginning of His In our divine service on Rosh HaShanah, with facts and forced to appraise. People work” is when humanity starts to search. we therefore focus on the core of our compulsively opine. When we first said “this,” creation truly relationship with G-d, the acceptance G-d brought the world into existence on began. of His sovereignty, for this serves as the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Elul, the foundation both for our observance But every year, we celebrate Rosh but introduced man to creation six days Hashanah again. Because creation— of mitzvos and for our ability to do later, on the 1st of Tishrei—and that is teshuvah. and its interpretation—is a never ending when we celebrate the New Year. In the process. There is always the ability to A Selfless Self Rosh Hashanah liturgy, we say, “This is reimagine our response. When we will Why is our absolute bond with G-d the day, the beginning of Your work.” Are say, “This is the day, the beginning of Your established through the acceptance we so self-absorbed as to be indifferent work,” we mean to say that today we can of His Kingship? The answer lies in to the preceding days of creation? Life redefine ourselves and the world around realizing that deep down, underlying pulsates all around us. We are but one us. the varied peripheral facets of our amongst millions of forms of life, yet we personalities, the very core of our being celebrate our appearance—the creation For millennia, humanity has largely is our divine soul, an “actual part of G-d of mankind—as the “beginning of Your chosen to define people with disabilities from above.” Therefore, it is not free work.” as somehow inferior, and excluded them self-expression, “being ourselves,” that from participating fully in society. With The letters of the alef-bet have the passage of time, we have redeemed expresses who we really are. Rather it is corresponding numeric values. The number in the acceptance of G-d’s sovereignty ourselves of these conceptions but remain 25 spells the word “koh,” meaning “like entrenched in seemingly benign—but that our inner G-dly potential finds this.” Twenty-five is thus a statement of expression. By getting to the core of insidious—assumptions. Too often, we approximation, signaling something vague. become fixated on external trappings and our relationship with G-d, we give voice When the prophets beheld G-d’s message to the core of our own being, to that fail to recognize the essentials that bind through a dream-like obfuscation, they us. Inclusion, as a movement, is a call for quintessential element that is most began their prophecies with the word truly ourselves. us to remember that much of this world koh—“like this.” They could not lay claim and the circumstances it presents are Thus when a person requests of G-d: to a visceral encounter with G-d; He came neutral: it is we who can decide the value “Reign over the entire world in Your through the veil of metaphor. of a given fact. No two people share the glory,” his request should be a deeply Conversely, the word “this” is a confident same limitations, but we do share our felt desire, not merely a superficial statement. When G-d split the sea, the common humanity. To impose a secondary statement. Every aspect of our being - Jewish people said, “This is my G-d.” His fact over one’s primary essence is a choice. and the essence of our being - should presence was so dominant, the purpose People do not define themselves by their be given over to G-d. of the event so evident, that they could limitations. It is time to extend that right to every individual. Our acceptance of G-d’s Kingship on point and say, “This is G-d.” At the moment Rosh HaShanah hastens the ultimate of materialization, when the distance On Rosh Hashanah we are again given the expression of His Kingship that will between object and observer closes— power to decide how we see things. It is an take place in the Era of Redemption. when everything falls into place—we say, opportunity for us to adjust our previous For then “G-d will be King of the entire “this.” perceptions, and to reflect on how our world; and on that day, He will be One The universe is a compendium of inexorable institutions can include those who may and His Name will be One.” May this realities: tectonic plates shift, glaciers have external constraints. Our world is one become manifest in the immediate erode, waters surge, volcanoes erupt. But of constant reinvention. As we inaugurate future. these inevitabilities are undefined. They a New Year, let us be brave enough to use have no inherent hue; they do not possess our meaning-giving impulse to challenge intention. Independent of human scrutiny, existing definitions, and create newer, is a sunset beautiful, an earthquake a more inclusive ones. tragedy? The natural world is a being 15 EMPOWERING CONTEMPLATIONS FOR ROSH HASHANAH

When the World Began Adam, the first human being, opened his eyes to a world that appeared to have always been. He lifted his eyes to the vast sky above. He gazed about at the bustling life. He beheld mighty mountains and majestic waterfalls, flowing rivers and verdant forests. And he cried out, “This is not a sky! This is the vast glory of my Maker! This is not a mountain, or a waterfall, a tiger or an ant— —this is all the majesty of an Infinite Being, who created a world out of kindness and might, beauty and wonder, glory and majesty, so that His creatures might know Him! I know what this is! This is not just a jungle! This is the garden of a great and magnificent King!” That is why Rosh Hashanah is called the first day of creation, for only then did the world know it had meaning. And on each Rosh Hashanah we replay that scene, we discover meaning in our world, and the world is born again.

Soul, Space, Time The ancient Book of Formation teaches that there is more to the universe than time and space. There is a soul.

Whatever is found in the universe’s soul is found somewhere in its space. And whatever is found in space, is found in time.

In the soul of the universe there is a consciousness from which all consciousness extends.

In space, there is the Land of Israel, a space from where all space is nurtured.

In time, there is Rosh Hashanah, a time from which all time is renewed.

Rosh Hashanah means Head of the Year. Not just a starting point, but a head, a new beginning of time on which a new consciousness enters our universe. For whatever will transpire in the coming year is first conceived in these two days.

The Drama All the cosmos came to be because G-d chose to invest His very essence into a great drama: the drama of a lowly world becoming the home of an infinite G-d. A marriage of opposites, the fusion of finite and infinite, light and darkness, heaven and earth.

We are the players in that drama, the cosmic matchmakers. With our every action, we have the power to marry our mundane world to the Infinite and Unknowable. 16 First Day More than Rosh Hashanah is about the One Above, it is about us below. He created the world. But we drive it to its destiny. That is why it is called “the beginning of Your works”—even though it is not the anniversary of the creation of the universe, but of the human being. It is the true beginning, as all of time begins on this day. Because on this day, more than any other, we are empowered to switch tracks, to transform our destiny and thereby the destiny of all of creation. Through us, the bitter darkness that shrouded truth and goodness can become a flaming torch of light. All is defined by destiny. Even the past is redefined by the arrow of its future. The very existence of that time that held that past is re-created once it achieves its hidden destiny. A destiny that only you can reveal. That is all that matters: Now, the first day of all of time, future and past.

The Ultimate Author Do-It-Yourself Lawyer How is G-d a king? Does He wear purple robes? As thinking human beings, we have an unlimited capacity to find Does He sit upon a golden throne? excuses, to discover ingenious and innovative ways to distance the perpetrator from the act. A king speaks and his word is fulfilled. G-d speaks and the world comes into being. He is the author We can blame it on youth, on old age, on parents, on children, and we are the characters of His story. on financial hardships, daily environs, psychological state. We can easily discharge anybody of any responsibility for any negative Such a great author that His characters can speak deeds that stain their hands. back to Him, and discuss with Him the path His story must take. We can all be wonderful advocates and lawyers for one another— and the Merciful One Above surely enjoys hearing such things.

But if you want to get ahead in life, don’t be your own lawyer.

Hide and Seek Rosh Hashanah, the taught, is a game of hide and seek. G-d hides, we seek.

But where can G-d hide? Wherever you go, there He is. As the Zohar says, “There is no place void of Him.”

Rather, what the Baal Shem Tov meant is more like peek-a- boo—when parents hide behind their own fingers. So too, G-d hides Himself within the guise of an awesome, indifferent king, judging His subjects strictly by the book until the most sublime angels shiver in dread.

And we seek. We seek the father behind the stern voice. We are the small child who climbs into the king’s arms, tears off the mask and exclaims, “Daddy!”

Which is just what He was waiting for.

17 them another year of life and health. I blew STORIES WITH SOUL for my generation, realizing that we were My 9/11 Rosh Hashanah - entering into an era when security was Blowing shofar amidst the smoke and ashes not something that we could ever take for granted. And I blew for G-d, who saw he image is seared into my mind. bore fading photos of the congregation’s mysterious beauty in the destruction and Walking over the Williamsburg Bridge Hebrew school, none more recent than the had a reason for the hammer-blow that from Brooklyn to Manhattan in the 1970s, and the smell of musty carpets and had rammed into our world. Tearly morning, looking to the right, and aged books pervaded the building. seeing giant plumes of smoke rising from As we chatted with the congregants after the spot where the Twin Towers had stood As we entered the sanctuary (according to services, it became clear that they were just days before. a plaque on the wall it had been paneled in agitated and not very clear about what was the 1950s), we saw perhaps a half-dozen happening just a few blocks away. “It’s that New Yorkers don’t generally talk to men scattered throughout the room. Some zero ground thing,” offered one woman, strangers. But everything was different pews were so covered with old books and referring to the site of the attacks, which in those days after 9/11. We were one pamphlets, there was no room to sit. Near had been dubbed ground zero. “That’s why city, one people. The fear had touched us the front sat the rabbi. there are so few people in shul; they were all in a place that was deeper than race, scared away by that zero ground.” socioeconomic status or culture. We were Wrapped in his tallit, the rabbi turned to all humans in need of comfort. greet us. He wore a white kittel with silver There was a man in the from braid, the likes of which I had never seen Brooklyn who was spending the holiday My friend Dani and I crossed the bridge before, which seemed to be nearly as old with his elderly mother in a nearby Beth together with a cyclist. He told us that he as he was. He wore his beard in a neatly Israel Hospital. He asked us to accompany was going away. He did not know where, kept goatee. Known in as a komatz him there to blow shofar for her and for and he didn’t care. He just needed to get berdel, the style had been popular among another man who was in the hospital. out of to escape the terrible rabbis decades before I was born. destruction that had happened there. As we approached the hospital, we were “We don’t hurry on Rosh Hashanah,” he greeted by walls covered with photocopied But we weren’t going far. It was the first day said in Yiddish, apparently apologizing for pages, each one with a photo, name, of Rosh Hashanah, and I was on my way the weak showing. “By the time we are and brief description of an individual—a to blow shofar for a small congregation of ready to start, we will have several dozen stark reminder of the terrible trauma that elderly retirees in Gramercy Park. people here.” Manhattan was living through. People were still missing under the rubble, and In my hand, I had a leather bag with a shofar He spoke with a grand confidence that family members were desperate for news. inside of it. Since I did not yet own a shofar meshed well with his strong Hungarian- of my own (I was 18 at the time), I had Jewish accent. We soon learned that he We blew shofar for the two elderly people borrowed one from my aunt and uncle. Its had once been a well-known Yiddish radio and shared a meal with their children. mouthpiece was riddled with tooth marks personality and political activist who was Homemade gefilte fish, sweetmeats and made by my overenthusiastic cousins, but famed for his oratory skills. compote were a much-welcomed repast at that time of the afternoon. it made a fine sound. I had spent a few The rabbi began the service by belting out hours in my dorm room practicing the day “Adon Olam” in a tune I had never heard Dani and I then spent the rest of the before, and I was sure that I would be able before but which has stuck with me until to blow it just fine. afternoon walking through the halls of this day. One by one, worshippers trickled the hospital, offering to blow shofar for I was accompanied by Dani, whom I had in. I do not know if the rabbi’s “several any Jews who had not heard it. Along the met in Russia the summer before, when we dozen” ever materialized, but there was a way we met the Jewish chaplain, and he were co-counselors at the Chabad summer motley crew of Jews—the men downstairs was happy to assign us certain floors, thus camp outside of Moscow. His parents were and the women above—mostly in their easing his burden. longtime refuseniks, and he knew Russian 70s and 80s. even though he had grown up in Israel. I, We returned the following day for a After Torah reading, it was time for the repeat performance, and then remained in on the other hand, had learned a handful rabbi’s sermon. He spoke powerfully about of words from my campers. Our common Manhattan until nightfall when we took a “the evil men who knocked down those car service back home. language was Hebrew, and we struck up a towers,” assuring his congregation (and friendship (today, he is a Chabad emissary perhaps himself) that G-d would surely As we rode back to Brooklyn, the driver in S. Petersburg, and we still keep in touch). bring them to justice. played the radio. For the first time since the attacks, there was more than just And there we walked in the early dawn It would be the rabbi’s first year not light, smelling the smoke of destruction news updates. Ads, talk shows, the regular blowing the shofar himself, and he was not programming was coming back on air. It and wondering how exactly the world quite ready to give up his sacred duty. He would survive the new year, 5762. felt good to hear the usual irreverence of stood with me at the bimah in the center of New York AM radio. It meant that we were When we arrived at the synagogue—a the sanctuary and read along with me the still alive, still ourselves. narrow affair sandwiched between walk- mystical prayers said by the shofar-blower. up apartments, Chinese laundries and And with that, we were ready for the Jewish After reciting the blessings, I closed my eyes year of 5762. convenience stores—we felt like we were and blew with all my might. I blew for the sucked into a different era. souls that had been cruelly snuffed out on The once-grand but never large lobby 9/11. I blew for the congregation, wishing 18 HALACHOS OF ROSH HASHANA By Rabbi Dov Schochet

Friday September 18- Elul 29 We say Tachnun during Selichos, even when done after sunrise. During Shachris and Mincha Tachnun is not recited.

We do not blow the Shofar on following Shachris. After Shachris we have the annulment of vows “Hatarat Nedarim. It is best if it is done in the presence of 10 men, however a quorum of 3 men is sufficient. If one is concerned about a larger group, they can do it with 3 other men initially. If there is no other option it can be done virtually, through zoom mistakenly concluded as they would time it is not necessary. etc. however the three “judges” must during the year, and did not correct it be physically present in one place. before beginning the next blessing or Saturday, September 19 Tishrei 1 pausing a few seconds they must go For those praying alone at home there We do not cook bitter or sour foods on back to the beginning of the Amida. is no need to say the different poems Rosh Hashana (sharp is fine), we also and liturgy that is usually recited do not eat nuts on Rosh Hashana. We bless each other in the singular, during the repetition. However one to a man “L’Shana Tova Tikasev may if they please, besides for the One should be well groomed, hair cut ViSechasem” to a woman “L’Shana blessings and Kedusha. and trim their nails, we also go to the Tova Tikasevi V’Sechasemi”. Mikva in the afternoon. We say the 13 attributes of mercy As it is Friday night Shalom Aleichem even on Shabbat. Candle lighting by 7:03 PM. Two etc. is recited, but quietly. blessings are made, the first “Lhadlik Following the reading of the Torah we Ner Shel Shabbos V’Yom HaZikaron, We dip the Challah in honey. do not blow the Shofar, for we do not and the second is Shehechiyanu. One Following the bread we eat an apple blow it on Shabbat. should have a long lasting candle dipped in honey, we first make the available to use for lighting candles blessing “Borei Pri HaEitz” and before When one prostrates on the ground the second night. eating from the apple we say “Yehi during the repetition, if the floor Ratzon Shetichadesh Aleinu Shanah is stone or marble there must be Mincha: Like every Friday we add Tova U’Mesuka, May it be your will something placed between their “Hodu” and “Pasach Eliyahu”. to renew for us a good and sweet knees and the floor and their head year”, we then eat from the apple. and the floor. Even one praying at Mariv: As the first day is Shabbat we When making the blessing over the home should say the prayer “Unesane do not sing Avinu Malkeinu before apple we should have in mind the Tokef” (pp 200 in the new Machzor), beginning the evening service. During pomegranate we are going to eat as that’s found in the repetition. the Amida we begin adding the well. If one did not eat a pomegranate insertions for the 10 days of Teshuva. since the new season began, they Kiddush: Whatever is normally recited “Zachreinu Lchaim, remember us should have it in mind when making before Kiddush on Shabbat day is for life” in the first blessing, “Mi the Shehechiyanu during Kiddush. said quietly. We say outloud “Tiku’u KaMocha, Who is like You” in the Chabad custom is not to say a Yehi BaChodesh” (Psalms chapter 81 second, “U’Chesov, Inscribe us Ratzon for the pomegranate. verses four and five) and then make for good life” during Modim, and the blessing over the wine. “U’Besefer Chaim, in the book of life” Bentching: We add Retzei for during Sim Shalom, the final blessing. Shabbos, Ya’ale V’Yavo for Rosh There is a custom not to sleep during If one forgot the insertion there is no hashana and the Harachamans at the the day time, sitting idle is equivalent need to go back or repeat the Amida. end of Bentching for each of them to sleeping, however the Arizal said The third blessing is concluded and for a Yom Tov. If one forgot to that this custom is only until midday. “HaMelech HaKadosh, the Holy say Ya’ale V’Yavo at night they must Mincha: As it is Shabbat we read the King instead of the Holy G-d. If one repeat the Bentching, during the day Torah, Parshat Ha’azinu. We do not 19 go to Tashlich on Shabbat, we push fruit since the current season of that end. If there are children in Shul it is it off until the second day of Rosh fruit has begun). After kiddush we imperative that they are silent and Hashana. eat from the new fruit, first make still so as not to disturb the ability to One cannot prepare for the second a blessing HaEitz and if one ate an properly hear the 30 blasts that will day until after nightfall. olives volume of it, we make an after be blown. blessing as well before washing for Saturday, September 19 Tishrei 2 bread. One should not talk following the Candle lighting is after 7:54 PM. At Shofar blasts for the Mitzva is only that time can we begin preparing Sunday, September 20 Tishrei 2 complete after the blowing done for the night meal. If one wants to There is a custom that men who have during the Chazzan’s repetition of cook etc. they must first say “Baruch an obligation to hear Shofar to not eat Mussaf. Hamdil Bein Kodesh L’Kodesh”. or drink anything until after hearing the Shofar during prayers. However Kiddush: We say only the verses Tiku The blessing over the candles are if one will find it hard to concentrate Bachodesh..without the inserts for “L’Hadlik Ner Shel Yom HaZikaron without drinking coffee or having a Shabbat. and Shehechiyanu”. Because there bite to eat, they may do so. is a debate if a Shehechiyanu should Following Mincha we go to a body of be made on the second night of Rosh Blowing the Shofar. water that has fish and say Tashlich. Hashana it is proper to have a new The one blowing the Shofar stands This is so we should have no evil eye fruit on the table that the woman has on the Bimah where they read the and we should be fruitful like fish. in mind when making the blessing. Torah. When making the blessings the Shofar is covered. While only the Havdalah: Rosh Hashana ends at Before Mariv we say Tehillim, and one blowing the Shofar is required to 7:53 PM. When making Havdalah sing Avinu Malkenu. We aslo add stand, the custom is that the entire we do not use a fire or spices, just “VaTodienu” duing the Amida which community stands. Before blowing the blessing over wine and Havdalah is the Havdala during prayers. the Shofar the entire community itself. recites Psalm 47 seven times, and During Kiddush we have five sections, then assorted verses from Psalms Monday, September 21 Tishrei 3 first we make the Bracha over the responsively, following the lead of The Third of Tishrei is the fast of wine, then we say the blessing of the one blowing the Shofar. The Gedalya, a leader of the Jews in Israel Kiddush, we then make a blessing one blowing the Shofar recites two who was assassinated by other Jews, over fire (as it’s Saturday night) look blessings, “Lishmoa Kol Shofar and which led to all Jews being expelled at the candles but don’t bring our Shehechiyanu”. As we are all fulfilling from Israel. The fast begins at 5:57 fingers close as we usually do, we our obligation when hearing these AM and ends at 7:41 PM. While then make the blessing of Havdala blessings we do not say Baruch Chabad does not say Selichos during and finally the Shehechiyanu. Again Hu U’Varuch Shemo but we do the 10 days of Teshuva, we do say as there is a question if Shehechiyanu respond Amen at the conclusion of Selichos on Tzom Gedalya after the should be recited we have a new each blessing. One must be careful Amida. fruit on the table (a new fruit is one to hear each of the sounds of the that one has not eaten that type of Shofar entirely, from beginning to

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love the High Holidays—the month when we turn our full attention to G-d, reflect upon our renewed Icommitment to becoming our best selves, and spend time with our family and friends.

Except this year. This year is different. This year there is the pandemic.

I’m an older woman, living alone, with health issues, and for those like me, this year will be unlike any before. I’ll be observing the holidays at home, by myself.

I’m used to davening at my local Chabad center, listening as the chazzan (cantor) does the “heavy lifting” of reciting the and I have the entire month of Elul to prayers, allowing my mind to wander at G-d put goodness in all His creations, practice. By Rosh Hashanah, I’ll be will, letting the rabbi make the service but we have to choose to look for it. ready to crown the King! meaningful with his commentary, Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s listening as the shofar is blown. hard, but it’s always our choice. Enjoy Good Books It will be hard not being with my friends During services, I was more like a This year I’ve been forced out of my during the festive meals, and nothing passenger than a driver. I got to look comfort zone by circumstances I can’t can replace that, but I’ll make sure I out the window and enjoy the scenery control. Even if I wanted to, I can’t go have good company in the form of because I didn’t have to drive the car. on autopilot. I can’t sit back, enjoy the uplifting Jewish books. I’ve collected This year everything will be different. ride, and let someone else drive the many excellent ones over the years, car. I’m behind the wheel. But being and my bookcases make me feel like But does different have to mean bad? the driver means that I’ll be in control the greatest Jewish minds in history Can’t something be different and good? of the journey. And that, I believe, is are in the room with me, ready to teach I like to eat coffee ice cream every day, where the goodness lies within this and converse. The Lubavitcher Rebbe but if there’s none in the freezer, I’ll eat very different holiday season. I will may join me for lunch, Maimonides vanilla instead. And maybe that vanilla control the journey, and I am choosing for dinner, and the Baal Shem Tov will be a delicious change. to take the scenic route. (founder of Chassidism) for coffee the next morning. And of course, I’ll have So, I decided to look for new ways to Slow Down and Sing books of Chassidic stories to spice up make this year fresh and exciting. And When I’m in shul, I have to rush through the meal. With guests like these, I’ll truly, shouldn’t we be doing this every the prayers just to keep up. I’m looking naturally want to put on nice clothes year? Each year we stand before G-d, forward to going at my own pace and and set the table with my best things. asking Him to forgive our shortcomings, taking time to think about what I’m asking Him to view us favorably, asking reading. I’ve also started listening to Celebrate! Him to give us another year to grow musical renditions of the prayers we Yes, this year will be different. I’ve been and improve. Should this ever be done sing to learn the melodies. given my driver’s license and handed on autopilot? the car keys. I can’t wait to get out Listen: Brush up on familiar High on the road, open the windows, and It’s true, we are living in difficult times. Holiday Melodies and Cantorial Classics enjoy the ride. May your own journey But Chassidic tradition teaches that this season be healthy, smooth, and all experiences - even the difficult Toot My Own Horn meaningful. ones - are opportunities to reveal the I’ve called my local Judaica store and goodness that exists within everything. bought a shofar. My very own shofar! Blowing it is not as hard as I’d thought 21 RECENTLY IN THE NEWS A SHORT HISTORY OF BRINGING SHOFAR TO THE STREETS - By Dovid Margolin and Menachem Posner

or as long as anyone can remember, the symbol of the High Holidays has been the shofar, the Fancient curved instrument used to inaugurate the Jewish New Year. The shofar, most often hewn out of a ram’s horn—although it can be made out of the horns of most kosher animals— is traditionally trumpeted in the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah and is the highlight of the service. Now, with COVID-19 creating an unprecedented obstacle to synagogue attendance, many Jews around the world will still be able to hear the shofar’s hallowed were likewise on the itinerary. Goldman cries thanks to a decades-old Chabad- “We’d go out early in the morning, recalls heading to St. John’s Hospital Lubavitch innovation: bringing shofar before prayers, and head to the (which later merged with Brooklyn to the streets. corners and the parks,” recalls Rabbi Jewish Hospital to form Interfaith) and Moshe Pesach Goldman, at the time Kings County Hospital. This year, Chabad emissaries and a student at the Lubavitcher yeshivah countless volunteers are organizing in the Crown Heights neighborhood “This was something totally new,” he more public shofar events than ever of Brooklyn, and shortly thereafter, explains. “Shofar in the street? It was before. In Montreal, banding together a young married man. Back then, the unheard of.” under the slogan “Rosh Hashanah length and breadth of the borough’s is not cancelled,” Chabad across the was Jewish, and so Crown Heights was at the time island is offering shofar at 101 different it was not difficult for the enterprising an upper-middle class Jewish locations. In St. Louis, Chabad is hosting young men to find ready customers. neighborhood, and so most Chassidim seven 30-minute shortened outdoor “I remember going to the big park could not afford to live there, instead Rosh Hashanah services featuring at Eastern Parkway and Rochester living down the parkway in Brownsville. shofar blowing. Avenue between 7 and 8 a.m., and it “When we still lived in Brownsville, was already filled with people.” we’d walk down Pitkin Avenue on our The coronavirus and social-distancing way to the Rebbe’s shul or back home measures it has engendered has More than six decades later, the in the afternoon, and all of these Jewish caused the closing of an unprecedented shocked responses the yeshivah stores were open, and we’d walk in number of synagogues, thus students got in those early days remain and blow shofar for the shopkeepers,” magnifying more than ever the need clear in Goldman’s mind: Ich hob recalls Goldman. for outdoor events. Yet the truth is fargessen ingantzen—“I’ve completely blowing shofar in parks—or on street forgotten [about shofar]!” Goldman The idea: bringing the spiritual and corners, in hospitals, prisons, elderly- recalls one elderly Jewish man telling emotional highpoint of Rosh Hashanah care facilities, military bases or nearly them. Vos vilstu fun unz? Mir zeinen to every single Jew was simple and anywhere else you can think of—is alte mentshen, gei tzu di yungere!— profound. In a way, not much has nothing new for anyone influenced “What do you want from us? We’re changed in the decades since the by the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. old men, go to the young ones!” said Shofar Campaign was initiated. Schneerson, of righteous memory, who another. “We told them ‘No, you’re not launched his Shofar Campaign prior to too old to hear the shofar!’ We asked “It was very much similar to what it Rosh Hashanah of 1953 (5714). At the them to repeat the blessing, and they looks like today,” observes Rabbi Yehuda time, there was almost no concept did.” Krinsky, a Boston native at the time of bringing Judaism to the streets or studying at the Lubavitcher yeshivah. wherever else Jews found themselves. They didn’t only approach Jews Like Goldman, Krinsky remembers Indeed, it appears the Shofar Campaign lounging on parkway benches or in the blowing shofar in the street, parks was a Chabad pilot program of sorts, parks. The emphasis of the campaign and in hospitals, recalling in particular a forerunner of the many mitzvah was to blow shofar for anyone who visiting a Jewish old-age home that campaigns that would follow in the would not otherwise have the ability once stood on the corner of Rogers years to come. to hear it, so the area’s many hospitals Avenue and Eastern Parkway. “There 22 were fewer yeshivah students and not nearly as many Chabad emissaries in the field, but otherwise there was nothing different.”

Krinsky, who not long after his marriage in 1957 began serving in the Rebbe’s secretariat and is today chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and Machne Israel—the educational and social services arms of the Lubavitch movement—notes that he and his fellow Chabad yeshivah students already had some experience with this sort of work. Programs geared at Jewish public school students such as Mesibos Shabbos and Released Time had been pioneered in the 1940s by the Sixth Rebbe—Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory— and Krinsky had taken part in those. Still, shofar in the street was new. “This, as well as offering passersby the opportunity to make a blessing on a lulav and etrog, was clearly an innovation of the Rebbe’s,” he says.

In response to a September 1958 around the world and especially from remains—the local Shofar Campaign, letter from a Jewish Brooklyn chaplain Israel would travel to New York to as well as street-side lulav and etrog thanking him for sending students spend the month of project, came under its aegis. Rabbis to blow shofar on both days of Rosh with the Rebbe. Heading out in the Berel Junik and Eli Gross became Hashanah, the Rebbe explained that early morning before prayers or in the responsible for both the shofar, and one of the aspects of the shofar on afternoon to blow shofar soon became lulav and etrog “routes,” each year Rosh Hashanah was to coronate G-d a basic aspect of Rosh Hashanah in sending more and more Chassidim out Almighty as king of the universe. Just as Brooklyn, and people started to take to further and further locations. an earthly king is more magnanimous notice. on his coronation day, G-d, the essence Each year detailed reports of these and source of all good, would surely “A planeload of Lubavitcher Hassidic activities would be written up and grant all that was required for “the pilgrims, who arrived from Israel delivered to the Rebbe, who would go benefit of the health of the body and before the Rosh Hashana holidays to over them very closely. soul of all those who find themselves spend the Holy Days period with their in the hospital in which you serve, Rebbe at 770 Eastern Parkway, will Incubated in Brooklyn, the Shofar amongst the entire Jewish people … . ” remain in New York for a month and Campaign was brought back to the depart after Simhat Torah,” reported central cities and distant kibbutzim The goal was to afford every single the National Jewish Post & Opinion of Israel. It also followed Chabad Jew—man, woman and child—the in October of 1960. “The full-bearded emissaries out to the locations they opportunity to hear the piercing call pilgrims, many of whom are farmers were being sent—places like Miami of the shofar, a prelude to the day in the Lubavitcher cooperative ‘Kfar Beach, Detroit and . Chabad took prophesied by Isaiah when the “great Chabad,’ are rich in … zeal. Starting California by storm in the 1960s, and shofar shall be sounded” with the on the Rosh Hashana holidays, they, by the beginning of the next decade, coming of Moshiach. At the same time, along with local Hassidim, trek to all its young pioneer emissaries and their the Rebbe stressed the simple healing hospital within walking distance of volunteers were bringing the Shofar that it brought those languishing in their synagogue and blow the shofar Campaign to 15 hospitals—from hospitals. Experience had shown, he for bedridden patients.” Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai (at said in 1978, that blowing shofar for the time two separate hospitals) in Los patients “literally revives souls.” The Rosh Hashanah efforts in Brooklyn Angeles to St. Johns in Santa Monica, to had initially been run informally, but facilities in Long Beach in the south and Visitors From Abroad Take to the with the founding of the Lubavitch Berkeley way up north. Streets Youth Organization of New York in Beginning in the late 1950s and then 1955—of which Goldman became “Last year’s program was a phenomenal growing over the years, guests from secretary and on whose board he success,” Rabbi , founding 23 director of Chabad of California, told the beginning, I would go together the Jewish people, as well as Jewish the Bnai Brith Messenger in 1971. “We with my friend Myron Jacobson, who soldiers in other militaries. have received hundreds of letters from would blow the shofar. It was quite an bed ridden patients and their families experience. People would break into Over the course of the next few years, thanking us for making available to tears.” the Rebbe would continue to speak them the shofar blowing … The shofar, about the soldiers, but also Jews which ushers in the New Year for the They would follow up with a lulav and incarcerated in correctional facilities Jews, has historically brought hope and etrog on Sukkot, and the responses and, of course, hospitals. And so these inspiration for brighter things to come Pinchot and the others received in places were added to itineraries, in the future.” Skokie—home at the time to one of with prisons from New York’s storied the largest populations of Holocaust Sing Sing to the Federal Correctional Those on the street seemed to respond survivors in the world—were not Complex at Allenwood, Pa., getting as well. unlike what Goldman and the yeshivah teams of dancing, shofar-tooting students had gotten in Brooklyn a Chassidim during the month preceding “Strolling along a street in the Park decade or so earlier. “We would meet Rosh Hashanah and the High Holiday Slope section of Brooklyn, I saw a young people who would say, ‘People still do itself. man with a shy, fish-out-of-water look that? I have not seen it since we left the about him,” wrote Ellie Spielberg to The Old Country,’ ” says Pinchot. The Rebbe continued to pay close New York Times’s Metropolitan Diary in attention to the details of the Shofar 1994. “ … He stopped and asked if I’d “For decades, I was among the group Campaign long after the Chabad heard the shofar being blown that day. of men who would walk to the hospital movement had grown into a global I answered no and my disappointment on Rosh Hashanah to blow shofar for juggernaut. By then, the number … . the patients,” adds Goldberg. “In time, of guests traveling to spend the the program was expanded to include High Holidays with the Rebbe had “So he opened his jacket, whisked out homebound as well. I was always mushroomed, yet on Rosh Hashanah a small ram’s horn … and gave me a amazed at how many people would of 1991, when the Shofar Campaign private concert. With joyful abandon, be eagerly hoping for us to come. By was announced as part of the next he played and played, conjuring trills, the end of the day, my lips would be day’s schedule at the central Chabad stops and drones of a tune as old as drooping, but for me, it was enjoyable synagogue, eyewitnesses recall the the Bible. I closed my eyes. Then he and rewarding.” Rebbe turning his attention to the stopped, tucked away the shofar, said crowd, emphasizing his expectation ‘Shona Tovah”—Happy New Year— The program was expanded in 1982, that all the gathered would participate. and was gone. It was the best Rosh ha- when Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie Shanah I’ve had.” was founded, with each congregation The cry of the shofar signifies each sending volunteers on one of the two and every Jew’s personal acceptance A Campaign Comes to Chicago days of Rosh Hashanah, and Chabad of G-d’s rule, and through this, His Like all of the Rebbe’s mitzvah volunteers visiting the hospital for kingship over the entire world. True, campaigns, blowing shofar in public was holidays throughout the year. This year, this can be done amid the pomp and never supposed to be solely the domain Chabad Rabbi Yochanan Posner has circumstance of the synagogue, but of Chabad emissaries or Chassidim, compiled a list of 22 different street more importantly, it must occur in the but something anybody with the right corners in the town where shofar hearts, minds and souls of the Jewish tools could do to help their fellow will be blown, under the auspices of people, wherever they may be. For Jews. This was precisely the intention the Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc) nothing quite reminds a Jew of who he of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Hecht, one of and Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois. Ten or she really is like the simple blast of the longtime leaders of Chabad in the other Chicago neighborhoods, from the shofar. Chicago area, when he began drafting West Rogers Park to Lakeview, have a shofar-blowing volunteers all over the similarly exhaustive list of public shofar This year that will once again take place city in the 1960s. Among those he got events organized by Chabad. in synagogues, but also and perhaps involved were brothers-in-law Roy primarily in public parks, off of porches Pinchot and David Goldberg. A Month-Long Campaign and on intersections from Jerusalem to In the month of Elul that preceded Rosh Moscow to to the streets Pinchot had prayed at Hecht’s Chicago Hashanah 1974, the Rebbe for the first of Brooklyn, where it all began. synagogue in the ’60s, but around time expanded the Shofar Campaign 1967 moved to Skokie where he to include the entire month, when by helped found Congregation Or Torah, custom the shofar is blown each day the suburb’s first Orthodox synagogue. excluding the eve of Rosh Hashanah. During this talk, the Rebbe highlighted “A year or two later, Rabbi Hecht the importance of bringing the shofar encouraged me to organize shofar for to the isolated soldiers of the Israeli people in the hospital,” recalls Pinchot, military, who placed their lives on the who now lives in Netanya, Israel. “In line each and every day to protect 24 IN A WOMAN’S WORLD ISSUES OF RELEVANCE TO THE JEWISH WOMAN

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25 26 27 FRENCH CONNECTION REFLEXIONS SUR LA PARACHA Vivre avec la paracha Techouva, Teflah et Tsedaka ‘Haratah implique le remord, le sentiment de lien. Il a donc besoin d’être constamment renforcé Question de traduction culpabilité pour le passé et l’intention de se et réactualisé. C’est là la fonction de la Tefla. Et par le Rav Jonathan Sacks comporter d’une manière tout à fait nouvelle elle est nécessaire pour chaque Juif, car nous dans l’avenir. L’homme décide de devenir «un être avons tous besoin de nous rattacher à notre a traduction d’une langue à l’autre suppose nouveau». Mais la Techouva signife le «retour» à source de vie. que chacun des mots de l’une des langues sa nature originelle. sera rendu exactement dans la seconde. La Tsedaka et la charité L Sous jacent au concept de la Techouva est le Mais cela n’est pas toujours vrai ou possible et Le mot hébreu pour charité n’est pas Tsedaka mais tout particulièrement lorsqu’il s’agit d’idées fait que le Juif est, dans son essence, bon. Des ‘Hessed. Et à nouveau ces mots sont antinomiques. essentielles et uniques dans le Judaïsme. désirs et des tentations peuvent l’empêcher ‘Hessed, la charité, signife que celui qui reçoit n’a momentanément d’être lui-même, d’être aucun droit au don et que le donateur n’a aucune On risque alors de tomber dans l’erreur de traduire conforme à son essence. obligation de donner. Il fait un don gratuit, mu une idée juive par celle qui nous est familière par la bonté de son cœur. Son acte est une vertu Mais les actes négatifs qu’il accomplit dans une autre culture alors qu’en réalité elles plutôt qu’un devoir. Par contre, la Tsedaka signife n’appartiennent pas à sa véritable nature, pas sont dissemblables, voire opposées. «droiture» ou «justice». L’implication en est que plus qu’ils ne l’affectent. La Techouva est un le donateur s’en acquitte car c’est son devoir C’est précisément le cas des trois mots qui retour au véritable moi. de le faire. Tout d’abord parce que tout dans le sont constamment dans notre esprit durant monde appartient, en dernier ressort, à D.ieu. Les les Dix Jours de Techouva. Ces mots sont ceux Alors que la repentance implique qu’il faille possessions de l’homme ne sont pas les siennes de Techouva, Tefla et Tsedaka, en français : renier le passé et tout recommencer, la Techouva par droit, mais plutôt, elles lui ont été confées par repentance, prière et charité. signife que l’on revient à ses racines en D.ieu et qu’on les laisse apparaître comme notre véritable D.ieu et l’une des conditions de cette transaction Le Rabbi nous explique avec insistance à quel personnalité. est qu’il doit aider ceux qui sont dans le besoin. point ces concepts diffèrent selon la langue dans D’autre part, l’homme a le devoir de se conduire laquelle ils sont rendus. C’est pour cette raison que si le Juste n’a aucune raison de se repentir et que l’impie risque d’en vis-à-vis des autres comme il demande à D.ieu Le service des Dix Jours être incapable, la Techouva leur est accessible à de Se conduire à son égard. Et tout comme nous Nous exprimons l’espoir qu’à Roch Hachana D.ieu tous les deux. demandons à D.ieu Ses bénédictions alors qu’Il nous bénisse d’ «une année bonne et douce» à ne nous doit rien et n’en a aucune obligation, Les Justes, bien qu’ils n’aient jamais péché, ont ainsi sommes-nous liés par un acte de justice à venir, une année fructueuse par les enfants, la constamment l’aspiration à revenir à leur nature santé et la subsistance. faire des dons à ceux qui nous sollicitent même la plus profonde. Et les impies, aussi distants si nous ne leur sommes aucunement débiteurs. Mais il n’y a pas de limites au bien et à la soient-ils de D.ieu, peuvent toujours revenir, car De cette manière, nous sommes récompensés, bénédiction. Aussi, durant les Dix Jours de la Techouva ne nécessite pas de créer quoi que ce mesure pour mesure. Techouva qui séparent Roch Hachana de Yom soit de nouveau mais seulement de redécouvrir Kippour, avons-nous l’opportunité, par notre le bon qui a toujours été présent en eux. Parce que nous avons donné gratuitement, D.ieu service, de faire en sorte que D.ieu nous accorde nous donne gratuitement. La Tefla et la prière des bienfaits encore plus grands de «Sa main Cela s’applique tout particulièrement à la Tsedaka pleine et généreuse». «Prière» en hébreu se dit Bakacha et non Tefla. Encore une fois, ces termes sont opposés. Bakacha donnée pour aider les institutions d’étude de la En quoi consiste ce service ? C’est, comme nous le signife «prier, demander, supplier». Mais Teflah Torah. Car tous ceux qui reçoivent l’éducation de disons dans nos prières, «la repentance, la prière signife «s’attacher». ces institutions constituent la future fondation et la charité» qui écartent le mal et apportent d’une maison en Israël et un futur guide pour la le bien. Mais les mots «repentance, prière et Dans la Bakacha, la personne demande à D.ieu génération à venir. Voilà quel sera le produit de la charité» sont erronés et conduisent à une fausse de lui accorder, d’En Haut, ce dont elle a besoin. Tsedaka et l’acte est la mesure de sa récompense. C’est pourquoi, quand elle ne manque de rien ou interprétation des idées de la vie religieuse qu’ils Trois voies évoquent dans le Judaïsme et à l’extérieur. qu’elle ne désire pas de don d’En Haut, la Bakacha paraît inutile. Ce sont là les trois voies qui mènent à une année En fait les différences sont cruciales. La Techouva «écrite et scellée» dans le bien. n’est pas la repentance. La Tefla n’est pas la prière. Mais par la Tefla, l’homme cherche à s’attacher En revenant à son moi le plus intime Et la Tsedaka n’est pas la charité. à D.ieu. C’est un mouvement du bas, de l’homme, vers le haut : il cherche à atteindre D.ieu. Et cela (Techouva), en s’attachant à D.ieu (Tefla) et Techouva et repentance convient à tout un chacun et en tous moments. en faisant des dons avec justice (Tsedaka), l’on transforme la promesse de Roch Hachana en un «Repentance» se dit en hébreu ‘Haratah et non L’âme juive possède un lien avec D.ieu. Mais elle Techouvah. Non seulement ces termes ne sont accomplissement opulent de Yom Kippour : une habite aussi un corps dont les préoccupations année de douceur et d’abondance. pas synonymes mais ils sont opposés. avec le monde matériel risquent d’atténuer ce 28 LATIN LINK REFLEXION SEMANAL Parasha de la Semana Tres Caras de Rosh Hashaná tanto sólo podían sugerir una idea aproximada de lo El jasidismo explica adicionalmente que este Rosh que Di-s había dicho. a designación Rosh HaShaná como comienzo de HaShaná venidero no solamente habrá de introducir Así, la diferencia entre la creación del mundo el 25 un nuevo año exige aclaración adicional. ¿Qué es una nueva generación de vida, sino que la naturaleza de Elul y la creación del hombre en Rosh HaShaná Lnuevo acerca de Rosh HaShaná? ¿Por qué debería misma de esta energía espiritual es nueva. considerarse a Rosh HaShaná como un nuevo año más se refeja en la diferencia entre claridad y oscuridad que cualquier otro punto en el tiempo? El año nuevo no es meramente una reintroducción de absolutas. En el primer día de la Creación, sin el la misma vianda vital que el año pasado. Es una fuerza benefcio de los esfuerzos del hombre por introducir Nuestros Sabios, aunque sin referirse directamente vital enteramente nueva que hace de este nuevo año Divinidad en el mundo, la presencia de Di-s sólo a esta pregunta, parecen haberse anticipado a ella uno verdaderamente nuevo y refrescante. podía presuponerse. Únicamente el hombre que cuando declararon que Rosh HaShaná es el aniversario sirve a Di-s voluntariamente puede suscitar la clara y de la creación de Adán y Eva, los primeros humanos. En un espíritu práctico, este conocimiento de lo radiante presencia de Di-s dentro de los confnes de En otras palabras, Rosh HaShaná difere de todos los que realmente sucede en Rosh HaShaná sirve para este mundo. El universo podría haber existido sin la demás tiempos del año en que es el aniversario de fortalecernos e inspirarnos. participación humana, pero no podría decirse que su algo que fue nuevo. Comenzamos a percatamos de que todos nuestros existencia fuera la de una realidad absoluta, en tanto Sin embargo, incluso luego de esta explicación, equívocos del pasado ya no parecen interponerse el elemento Divino -la verdadera realidad-estuviera parecería no haber nada realmente nuevo en el Nuevo más en el camino de los nuevos logros, porque para oscurecida. Año; apenas el aniversario de un suceso que alguna el año nuevo somos dotados de una nueva energía Ahora bien, ya sea si traducimos Rosh HaShaná como vez fue nuevo. sin precedentes. Ingresamos a un universo nuevo, un “Nuevo Año” o como “Comienzo del Año”, seguimos mundo dotado de nuevas cualidades espirituales. El jasidismo, sin embargo, arroja luz sobre el concepto obligados a considerar la traducción literal de la frase. del nuevo año. No es apenas el aniversario de algo En la liturgia de Rosh HaShaná el día es descripto como Rosh HaShaná, enfatiza el jasidismo repetidamente, no que alguna vez fue nuevo, sino que algo radical “Comienzo del año”: Este es el día que es comienzo de signifca el comienzo del año sino más bien la “Cabeza sucede al mundo; algo radicalmente nuevo. Esto es Tu obra un recuerdo del primer día”. del Año”. ¿Qué importancia tiene esta distinción? ¿La así porque cada ano, a medida de que se aproxima También esta descripción es problemática. ¿Por qué palabra “cabeza” no es simplemente una metáfora para su fn, se agota la energía Divina asignada al universo considerar a este día como el “Comienzo de la obra el concepto de principio? creado. Cuando nos introducimos en el santo día, los de Di-s?” ¿No es Rosh HaShaná el aniversario de la más espiritualmente sensibles entre nosotros pueden Cuando hablamos de Rosh HaShaná como “cabeza” creación del hombre acaecida en el sexto día de la realmente sentir la retirada” de esta energía del del año nos referimos al signifcado profundo de la Creación? ¿Y por qué, de hecho, ha sido elegido este mundo, dejando detrás de sí sólo un vestigio de la relación de este día con el resto del año. Tal como la día como Rosh HaShaná, en lugar del 25 de Elul, el fuerza original, apenas lo sufciente para sostener al cabeza alberga al órgano más vital del cuerpo humano, verdadero aniversario de la Creación? mundo y evitar que deje de existir. el cerebro, sin el cual ninguna actividad puede tener La respuesta clásica es que antes de que el hombre cabida, así también Rosh HaShaná es el mismísimo Durante Rosh HaShaná especialmente en el momento fuera creado todo el universo carecía de legitimidad. “cerebro” del año entero. Sin Rosh HaShaná, no podría en que hacemos sonar el shofar, Di-s asigna de nuevo Sin un ser humano dotado de Libre Albedrío y que haber ningún otro tiempo. el sustento vital necesario para el nuevo año. Cada voluntariamente acepte a Di-s como su Amo, y que Rosh HaShaná, entonces se genera nueva vida para el Tras una medida adicional de refexión uno puede consagre su vida a El, la existencia no tendría propósito. próximo año, y solamente para ese año. observar tres distintos niveles de relación entre Rosh Por lo tanto, bien justifcadamente podemos declarar HaShaná y el resto del año. La analogía de “Cabeza En cuanto a lo que concierne al año actual, la vitalidad que “Este es el día que es comienzo de Tu obra”. del Año” con la cabeza del cuerpo es exacta para los toca a su fn a medida que el año culmina. Qué nivel El jasidismo lleva este análisis un paso mas allá al tres distintos niveles de relación que existen entre la o grado de vida continuará teniendo la creación sugerir que la palabra “Este”, ze en hebreo, denota que cabeza y el cuerpo. Estos son: dependerá de lo que se le asigne en Rosh HaShaná, se trata de algo que uno realmente puede señalar, lo que, a su vez, dependerá de cómo aceptamos a Di-s 1) La cabeza o el cerebro es el órgano más “superior” e algo que está junto a uno en tanto que la fecha de la como nuestro Rey, antes y durante Rosh HaShaná. importante del cuerpo. creación del mundo el 25 de Elul - representada por el Nuestra sentida súplica de corazón a Di-s: “Reina valor numérico de la palabra hebrea ko (=25), implica 2) El cerebro contiene dentro de sí la fuerza vital de sobre el mundo entero en Tu gloria” es, por lo tanto, ambigüedad. todas las demás extremidades y órganos del cuerpo. nada menos crucial que nuestros pedidos de que El Los términos ze y ko representan dos perspectivas 3) El cerebro orienta y coordina activamente a la nos otorgue vida y salud. Sin una respuesta afrmativa diferentes de la realidad: ko es una aproximación y ze persona por entero, y está activamente involucrado en de Di-s al primer pedido, el segundo no carece de una precisión, como diciendo “esto es”. la operación de cada uno de los órganos. signifcado, pues, ¿qué tipo de mundo sería sin que se involucre activamente Di-s? Pedir a Di-s que sea Así explican nuestros Sabios la diferencia entre Lo mismo es cierto de la “cabeza” del año, Rosh nuestro Rey es el equivalente de pedirle que impregne Moshé y todos los demás Profetas: “Moshé profetizó HaShaná, y su conexión con el “cuerpo” del año. nuestras vidas de propósito y signifcado. [comenzando] con la palabra ze esto y todos los Rosh HaShaná es, ante todo, el día más sublime del demás Profetas lo hicieron [comenzando] con ko “asi”. Cada Rosh HaShaná, entonces, el mundo recibe año, enaltecido por encima de todos los demás días, La diferencia es que mientras Moshé tuvo una visión una verdaderamente nueva arrienda de vida. Cada disfrutando de la misma preeminencia que ostenta clara en cuanto a qué implicaba el mensaje de Di-s, Rosh HaShaná el mundo experimenta una genuina la cabeza sobre todas las demás partes del cuerpo los demás Profetas tuvieron más bien una perspectiva renovación; el universo entero experimenta una humano. confusa de la comunicación de Di-s a ellos y por lo “recreación”. 29 NUMBERS TO KNOW

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