| Rosh Hashanah 5761 (2000) |
Days of Awe
The essence of Rosh HaShanah, our sages tell us, is that it is the day on which we crown G-d king of the universe.
Unless you're particularly religious, "G-d" is probably not a word that you use comfortably. Add to that "king of the universe," and that's enough to make a modern person squirm. So what will you be doing in the synagogue on Rosh HaShanah?
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Rosh Hashanah
First day of Rosh Hashanah (Sep. 30): Genesis 21
Second day (Oct. 1): Genesis 22
 Remembrance and laughter, banishment and benevolence, seven sheep and a well, the ultimate sacrifice and the origin of Jerusalem--in the Torah readings for Rosh HaShanah
The Torah Readings in a Nutshell
Full Summary with Commentary
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| FROM THE CHASSIDIC MASTERS |
New Year Dissonance
There are things that G-d wills, yet withholds. In some cases He may tell us about them, in some not--at least, not overtly. But He restrains His words from their fruition, allowing us to achieve that result. He allows us to do the opposite--and experience the consequences. In very many cases, He leaves it up to us to determine what it is that He wants...
At a certain point, it will be apparent that we got some of it right.
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Cold Soup
 Imagine, a couple gets married, and the man says to his new wife, "Would you make me something to eat, please? I'll be right back." She begins preparing. The guy comes back 3300 years later, walks into the house, up to the table, straight to his favorite chair, sits down and tastes the soup that is on the table. The soup is cold.
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The Schoolteachers of Beshenkovitz
"For five thousand, six hundred and sixty one years, nine months, thirteen days, fifteen hours and so many minutes" said father, "this particular piece of land has waited for Peretz and Mendel. It has waited for Peretz and Mendel to come and sit on it to review words of Torah, and to thereby fulfill and bring to light the Divine Will which is imbedded within the original supernal thought of creation..."
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The High Road
 When the holy was finally allowed to penetrate to the depths where it belongs, heaven was made a neighborhood. It became a daily occurrence for simple folk to ascend there on ladders of wood, or to arrive through open doors from adjacent rooms.... The messiah was not a fable for these good people, or a possible dream of times to come; for them, redemption was now.Cunning minds might contend that they were merely naive. I would say, rather, that they bore the mark of wisdom: a good memory of the future, as well as of the past.
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Rabbi Eliezer Lazaroff, director of the Chabad Texas Medical Center in Houston, will be spending this Rosh Hashanah making the rounds of bedridden patients, enabling them to fulfill the mitzvah of hearing the shofar right in their hospital rooms.
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