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Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Read more of the Rebbe’s High Holiday Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, O.B.M. Insights at www.chabad.org rosH HasHanaH: through prayer, meditation CeleBraTing oUr and fasting is again PoTenTial achieved on Sukkot, but through joy. Rosh Hashanah celebrates the creation of Adam and Eve. What we accomplish When Adam was created, through blowing his soul so irradiated his the shofar is now being, that all the creatures accomplished by wanted to crown him as their placing the schach creator. Adam corrected branches on the roof them, saying, “Come, let us of our sukkah. (The worship, let us bow down and word schach has the kneel before G-d our Maker” numerical value of 100, (The Zohar). At that moment, equaling the amount he actualized the universe’s of sounds blown from potential—to become one with the the shofar during Rosh Divine. Hashanah.) The seven days between Rosh Hashanah and It is only through the creation of Adam Yom Kippur can elevate each day (humanity) that the separate elements of the coming year; the seven days of of the universe can unite with one purpose. Sukkot elevate the coming year with joy Only we have the power to elevate physicality into and spirituality. The cloud of incense offered something spiritual. When a ram’s horn is blown on Rosh in the Holy Temple on Yom Kippur is a manifestation of the Hashanah, the animal kingdom is elevated. When we make a “clouds of glory” that protected the Jews leaving Egypt; a blessing before eating an apple dipped in honey, we elevate physical sukkah is the spiritual manifestation of these clouds.