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The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
Serving Columbui and the Central Ohio
' • Jewish Community since 1922
VOLUME 72
\ NUMBER 35
SEPTEMBER 1,1994
25 ELTJL 5754
The year in review
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of world poverty
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at Israel Bonds reception
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High Holiday Messages
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1994 recipe contest which <**lebrates the long
tradition of honey in Jewish cookery. The recipe for
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Wednesday, Sjpt. 7, in observance of Rosh Hashanah.
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ROSH HASILANi^H FEATURE
Rosh Hashanah — It's about time
By Rabbi Bernard S. Raskas
ST. PAUL, Minn. (JTA)—
Rosh Hashanah, the commemoration ofthe creation of
the universe, is a difficult concept to grasp.
That is because it has to do
with the idea of time. Even the
essential symbol of Rosh Hashanah, the sound of the sho-
far, exists only ih time. It cannot be seen, touched, felt or
tasted.
In the roller coaster of life,
we need to understand time
and the timeless. Awash in
trivia, people need ceremonies
to remind themselves that
they are part of something important, if not mysterious. We
Jews, for example, have a
blessing for sighting a rainbow
or the ocean, for our food, for
beginnings and endings. As
Kohelet put it, "There is a
time for everything."
Life is precious and life is
sacred. As we move about
God's world, we must walk
with reverence for creation.
We are ofthe universe and are
its caretakers. On Rosh Hashanah we reaffirm our responsibility to cherish the life
of the universe.
A story about one of our
great atomic physicists illustrates this concern for all liv
ing things. This man, one of
the chief architects of the
atomic bomb, was out wandering in the woods one day
with a friend when he came
upon a small tortoise.
Overcome with pleasurable
excitement, he took up the tortoise and started home, thinking to surprise his children
with it. After a few steps, he
paused and surveyed the tortoise doubtfully.
"What's the matter?" his
friend asked.
Without responding, the
great scientist slowly retraced
his steps as precisely as possible
and gently set the turtle down
upon the exact spot from which
he had taken him up.
Then he solemnly faced his
friend and said, 'it just struck
me that for one man, perhaps I
have tampered enough with
the universe."
He turned and left the turtle
to wander on its way.
This is a recognition that we
must have a sense of reverence
for the life of the world.
Rosh Hashanah also comes
to mark the end ofthe old year
and there is a time for letting
go. We need to let go of our
children so they can grow up.
We need to let go of our anger
and our guilt. We need to let
go of certain traumas and
events of the past so we can
experience the many opportunities of the present and the
future.
We need to let go of material objects when we become
overly dependent on them.
Letting go does not necessarily
mean to physically relinquish
the object. We need to overcome our own dependency on
the object and realize that the
essence of our being is not the
material object.
An example is an individual
who is determined to maintain a lifestyle that is beyond
his or her means and creates
financial havoc.
In spiritual preparation for
the coming sacred days it
might be proper to read A
Brief History of Our Time, by
Steven Hawkins, a towering
figure in modem physics and
the most famous scientist
since Einstein.
the book has sold over 2
million copies. But few realize
that for the past 25 years Hawkins has been living with a motor-neuron disease.
When he was working as a
young man of 21 on his Ph.D.
at Oxford, he was stricken
with what is commonly known
as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Since
he can hardly move a muscle
and cannot even feed himself,
he has to use a voice synthesizer to communicate his extraordinary discoveries.
When he first discovered his
illness in his student days, he
said, "When I found I could
not control my body, but my
mind was free, I changed my
attitude. I 'determined that I
would choose to let mind conquer matter. I would determine how I think and nothing
and no one would stand in the
way of my thinking."
Rosh Hashanah comes to
remind us that we can do te-
shuvah, control our thinking.
This in turn helps us to determine our behavior. It is a time
to reassess our thoughts and
our deeds.
A pious Jew was once having
a dialogue with God. "GoUemv
dear God," he asked, "in Your
infinite wisdom, what is a million years?"
The voice from above replied, 'in My infinite wisdom a
million years is like one
minute."
The gentleman persisted,
"Lord ofthe universe, in Your
infinite goodness, what is a
million dollars?"
Again the voice from above
replied, "In my infinite goodness a million dollars is like
one penny."
see TIME pg. 4
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