“Teshuvah is thus like a person on a journey who at some point decides to change direction. From that point on, his steps will be carrying him toward a different destination. The turn itself is accomplished in a second. Yet the new path, like the one abandoned, is long and arduous.”
― (Steinsaltz Adin)
“It is the beginning of Fall.
I am completely in awe.” – (LIVING IN AWE from the poetry of Gail Landgraf)
“The blessing over the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah refers to the mitzvah as “hearing the voice of the Shofar.” but since that voice speaks without words, the measure that is heard depends a great deal on who is doing the listening.” – ( Douglas Aronin)
“The blessing over the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah refers to the mitzvah as ‘hearing the voice of the Shofar,’ but since that voice speaks without words, the message that is heard depends a great deal on who is doing the listening.”
— (Douglas Aronin)
“Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of Sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.” – (Leviticus 23:24)