This Rosh Hashanah, my mom will be in the hospital recovering from a bone marrow transplant. When I asked why she wants another year of life, she didn’t say for family milestones — she said, “I want to be nicer.”
That’s the heart of Rosh Hashanah: not just asking for life, but asking for the chance to become better.
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Rosh Hashanah is a difficult holiday to wrap our heads around. At the forefront there is the notion of being inscribed in the Book of Life and God’s judgement. And […]
It’s two weeks before Rosh Hashanah (Can you believe it? Ach!). Clearly Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. Except in Judaism we have two New Years (actually four, but […]
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Six Degrees Of Kosher Bacon 