Birthing the New Year 5781: Break. Breathe. Push. (Rosh Hashanah

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Birthing the New Year 5781: Break. Breathe. Push. (Rosh Hashanah

Description

What if took the original context as our guide and we said this Rosh Hashanah: “Today is a day of Eternal Pregnancy.” announcing that we would be stuck here in the womb of this quarantine—forever? We would all despair. It would be a crisis of epic proportions. But you may have heard the Jewish proverb: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Ok, it’s actually Winston Churchill who is usually credited with saying that, but our tradition anticipated his sentiment by over 3000 years. Because if you know our history, you know that we Jews were built for crisis. And if there is one thing I have come to appreciate recently— it’s that our texts and liturgy, most which were written during some famine, exile, Crusade, or pogrom, feel like they are speaking to me more than ever in this moment. Because, actually, this isn’t unprecedented. We’ve been here before.

Subject

High Holidays, when COVID-adapted (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur)

has community

Progressive Judaism

Spatial Coverage

New York

has denomination

Central Synagogue

Date Submitted

11/16/2020 12:01

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