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<strong>High</strong> <strong>Holiday</strong> Message<br />
Rabbi Gila Ruskin<br />
When you turn 5, as my grandchild recently did, the planning and anticipation<br />
of your birthday celebration consumes the household for at least a month or<br />
more before the big day. Zeev was brimming over with excitement. When the<br />
Basketball in the Alley party was over, he was not only delighted and satisfied,<br />
but really seemed to have grown and matured before our eyes.<br />
The new year of <strong>5780</strong>, marked by the holy days of<br />
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, is definitely on<br />
the horizon. Let’s prepare for the birthday of our<br />
Creation with the enthusiastic anticipation of a<br />
five year old, and with the mature reflection of a<br />
self-aware adult.<br />
Apples or challah and honey instead of birthday<br />
cake, “Avinu Malkaynu” instead of the “Happy<br />
Birthday Song”, enhanced by the potential to<br />
improve our lives as we spiral to a higher, yet<br />
deeper level of spiritual existence.<br />
As every birthday party is similar to all others, yet unique to the occasion and<br />
honoree, here at Temple Adas Shalom, we do indeed sound the shofar, and pray<br />
that we will be inscribed in the Book of Life as are the ages-old traditions, but<br />
we also create our own unique celebration.<br />
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