Wednesday is radio silence so I can see about getting entered into the Book of Life and clean up my list of people who have pissed me off and get off other people’s list of who I have pissed off. So tomorrow when the Book of Life is open, and I’m fasting, here’s what I’d like my entry to say oh great cosmic forces: Rachel had a year of transition, but we’re going to cut…
First, let’s start with shana tovah u’metukah, which in Hebrew is a wish for a good and sweet new year. Symbolically, we’ll eat apples with honey in this house – this is tradition. And on Rosh Hashanah, which starts tonight and also starts a ten day trek to Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, it will be all about teshuva or returning to what is pure inside of us and realizing where we might have…
Tonight is the eve of Yom Kippur and just as Eudora Welty said that Southerners live their narratives, well what could be more Talmudic than my mom in the hospital and me adopting a baby. The Talmud teaches about life, which comes and goes and always centers around common themes – love and happiness. As well as grace and duty. I begin my fast tonight with the sounds of a shofar from a congregation in…