Rosh Hashanah 5778 — An Ever-Dying, Never-Dying People
WEBAs we enter 5778, it’s not easy to be a Jew. But, back to the thesis of Simon Rawidowicz, who coined the phrase “ever-dying people.” One striking element of his argument is that the very state of believing, behaving as if we are the very last Jews is one of the animating forces that has kept us vibrantly alive through two millennia of ...
Nothing More Whole Than a Broken Heart (Rosh Hashanah 5778)
WEBSep 20, 2017 · Rosh Hashanah is also known as Yom Teruah—the Day for the Sounding of the Shofar. The purpose of the Shofar blast is to shake us up, and to disturb our status quo. The shofar call, “Shevarim,” literally means BROKEN.
On Rosh Hashanah 5778 - ADL
WEBSep 18, 2017 · Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is both a celebratory holiday and a time for serious introspection. It is a celebration of the creation of the Universe and of G-d's sovereignty over that Universe. And, it is a time to look into oneself to examine where one has been and where one is going.
ROSH HASHANAH 5778 - Malverne Jewish Center
WEBRosh Hashanah celebrates and reminds us of creation–the very beginning–or at least the beginning of what we can comprehend, when God spoke and the universe came into being. Humans are the culmination of God’s work; the creation that would have dominion and stewardship over what had already been created, and that together would form the ...
WEBSep 9, 2017 · Rabbi Eliana Jacobowitz [3] Rosh Hashanah 5778 is this significance? Are we really blowing the horn to say to God: look we are the sacrifice? We are victims of being in the wrong place at the wrong time (like the ram in the akeida?), or even worse, are we saying we live our lives for the purpose of becoming sacrifice (Rashi’s
WEBErev Rosh Hashanah, 5778: What Shall I Ask For? Rabbi Esther Adler, Mount Zion Temple 2 As you continue to breathe, let your imagination float. Just for now, open your mind to the endless possibilities of this singular ask. Would you ask for some thing? Some person? Health? Wealth? Power?
This Too Shall Pass (Rosh HaShanah 5778) - Central Synagogue
WEBSep 22, 2017 · No matter what 5777 brought for us, it is time to throw a hook into our future and bring about 5778. Decide what it is in life that we want and how we are going to get it. Gam ze ya’avor is a balm for us, absolutely. But it is also a dictate that we stand at attention before God with the full understanding that time is our greatest gift.
WEBRosh Hashanah 5778. In his firsthand account Alan Zimmerman, president of Beth Israel synagogue in Charlottesville, VA wrote, Forty congregants were inside. H ere’s what I witnessed during that time. For half an hour, three men dressed in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic rifles stood across the street from the temple.
The Well – Rosh Hashanah 5778 | Beth El Synagogue - besyn.org
WEBAs we enter 5778, we are called upon to renew our learning. I pray that words of Torah will be sweet in our mouths and a source of salvation in our lives guiding us to establish a world for our children and grandchildren of joy and of justice, of harmony and of holiness, of prosperity and of peace.
Rosh Hashana 2017 - The Jewish New Year - Hebcal
WEBSep 20, 2017 · Rosh Hashana for Hebrew Year 5778 began on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 and ended on Friday, 22 September 2017. Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה), (literally “head of the year”), is the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim (“Days of Awe”), celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur.
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