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Elul Meditation #19                                                                Sunday, 22 Elul

9/25/2016

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May the Kadosh Baruch Hu, the Holy One, bless you and all those you love with a new year of good health, peace, fulfillment and the love of family, friends and community.

L'shanah tovah tikateivu           לשנה טובה תכתבו
Rabbi Amy Levin

Break Us Down and Make Us Whole

The mystics attributed great significance to the order of the shofar blasts.  
Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz (who lived in Prague and Jerusalem in the 17th century),  notes that each group of sounds begins with a teki'ah, a whole  note, proceeds to shevarim, a "broken" note, divided into three parts, or even to teru'ah, an entirely fragmented sound, at least seven very brief sounds. But each broken note is followed by a  whole note, another teki'ah. 
 
This, he says, is the message of Rosh Hashanah: "I started off whole, I became broken, even splintered  into fragments, but I shall become whole again! I shall become  whole again!"

  
                                                                          Rabbi Arthur Green, These Are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life
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    Rabbi Amy Levin

    Ordained in Israel.  Served congregations in Israel and in the United States.  Engaged in building bridges between faith communities, advancing nuanced understanding between Israel and the American Jewish community and committed to the well-being of all clergy.

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