New Year, New height
Today began a new year (Jewish) – Rosh Hashanah, and technically, because the Jewish day is sundown to sundown, and I am writing this, past sundown on September the ninth, we are actually in the second day of the new Jewish year. September 9 is my birthday, so I am double-celebrating.
The beauty of the new is the end of the old and the beginning of the new. This new year, 5771 – there is a freshness about it. It’s a new height, a new level, a new phase, a new grace, or should I say, a higher measure of grace … assuming grace can be measured.
I’m reminded of this verse; Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. – Isaiah 43:19
Avinu Malkeinu (our Father and King), we appreciate you and look to You this new year, todah rabbah (thank you very much)!
