L’shanah tovah!

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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb

Bazootiehead-in-training

19 September 2020, 07:59 AM

Amanda

Indeed! May we all warrant a good inscription in the Book of Life for 5781.

And for the entire planet which needs renewal, salvation and redemption.

Too bad Justice Ginsburg couldn't have joined us a little longer.

19 September 2020, 08:30 AM

Amanda

The words that always frighten me and represent the uncertainties of our future...

quote:
On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed,

And on Yom Kippur it is sealed.

How many shall pass away and how many shall be born,

Who shall live and who shall die,

Who shall reach the end of his days and who shall not,

Who shall perish by water and who by fire,

Who by sword and who by wild beast,

Who by famine and who by thirst,

Who by earthquake and who by plague,

Who by strangulation and who by stoning,

Who shall have rest and who shall wander,

Who shall be at peace and who shall be pursued,

Who shall be at rest and who shall be tormented,

Who shall be exalted and who shall be brought low,

Who shall become rich and who shall be impoverished.

But repentance, prayer and righteousness avert the severe decree.

Excerpt from the Netaneh Tokef Prayer

quote:
בראש השנה יכתבון
ובצום יום כיפור יחתמון:
כמה יעברון וכמה יבראון
מי יחיה ומי ימות
מי בקצו ומי לא בקצו
מי במים ומי באש
מי בחרב ומי בחיה
מי ברעש ומי במגיפה
מי ינוח ומי ינוע
מי יישקט ומי ייטרף
מי ישלו ומי יתייסר
מי ירום ומי יישפל
מי ייעשר ומי יעני:
ותשובה ותפילה וצדקה
מעבירין את רוע הגזירה!

19 September 2020, 02:15 PM

Nina

Agreed, Amanda. If those words don't provoke some sort of inner reflection, then I don't know what will.

I read that people who pass on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, as RBG did, are considered to be exceptionally righteous. I don't know if that's true, but I have no problem with that being attributed to RBG.

27 September 2020, 04:46 PM

wtg

Hope I get these greetings straight...I usually check a couple of sources to be sure.... somebody let me know if I'm saying something rude or inappropriate

G'mar Hatimah Tovah

Every year I look for a different version of Kol Nidre . Here's my selection for this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKBkn4JHZfU