Rosh Hashanah - Second Day

she's dancing okay hello is it on yep hi everyone shana tova please take your seats one two three foreign me oh oh temple israel of hollywood woohoo it's great to have everyone in the room it's great to have everyone over live stream welcome to our community wherever you are near or far in your bedrooms in the hospital in your dorm rooms in your backyard and here it is good to welcome everyone and to revisit once again for a second day repentance and reflection and turning i want to remind everyone who's here you know we've asked for your vaccine cards and for everyone to wear a mask over their nose and their mouth we will be following very strict protocols of what the state is asking us to do but we ask all of you to constantly keep on your masks also if you haven't yet turned off your cell phones please do that to make sure that we won't be distracted during our services as you may know if you've been here before for second day or joining us online we have a beautiful tradition of inviting different temple israel members to reflect on different prayers throughout the service so we'll be doing that today and also rabbi calvin dax de costa will be our darshan today he'll be delivering the sermon and it's good to take a breath it's good to take a breath you know today is considered the birthday of the world and there's a beautiful story captured in the book giants of the earth about the settlers of south carolina there's a farmer giving a tour of his farm and he says so here's the farmhouse and here's the corral and here's the cattle and the visitor says i don't really see anything i just see prairie and the farmer says oh i haven't built it yet it's just that's what will be there and i thought you know that's the vision of rosh hashanah that we haven't yet rebuilt our lives but during these next 10 days of turning and returning we're driven to see the present through the vantage point of the future so as we transition to 57 82 i invite you to create sacred space within and around you and those who are able to to please rise or sit up high in your seats those of you at home this isn't a spectator sport we really want your participation and take a few moments to be present with yourself if you have a talit hold it over your head and create some sacred space breathe deeply and embrace who you are right now your strengths and your struggles and focus on what you're working on these next 10 days of repentance what areas in your life you wish to tenderly examine to change to hold on to the talmud teaches that god also prays god wears a tallit of light and pleads may my mercy outweigh my need for judgment join god in covering yourself with your prayers for the new year prayers of beauty and pain yearning and insecurity uncertainty and hope continue to be wrapped in these for the next nine days until yom kippur and join me in the blessing that ends with lahita baruch eloheinu asher kitsanu bamitzva tavitzivanu lahit blessed are you adonai our god creator of the universe who commands us to wrap ourselves in the fringed garment moda ni la fanecha thank you god for giving me life for sustaining my soul and for returning my soul graciously every morning page 43 matovo you can be seated is i need to is oh is each see this year our bodies were we were reminded of how delicate our bodies were with covet all around us so this next prayer on the bottom of 44 really brings to the surface how blessed we are to have our bodies and have them work please join me um i'll share your foreign me yesterday rabbi chernow talked about seizing life and getting messy and trying new things and one of the the rubrics that our rabbis give us is to do meets vote every day to do a hundred meets vote every day page 45 is one of those meets vote is studying torah so we get to start out our day in that way join me eternal our god make the words of your torah sweet to us and to the house of israel your people that we and our children may be lovers of your name and students of your torah baruch israel now that we've said the blessing over studying torah take a few moments on page 46 to find one bit of torah to study on your own hmm and in this topsy-turvy world of covid sometimes it's confusing to know how to put one foot in front of the other page 47 a line a section from talmud that gives us direction join me in the hebrew or the english hey lou diva is these are the obligations without measure whose reward 2 is without measure ki buddha m honoring father and mother uk performing acts of love and kindness the hash come out bait hamid shaharit attending the house of study daily welcoming the stranger visiting the sick rejoicing with bride and groom making peace when there is strife the talmud and studying torah is equal to them all because it leads to them all as we begin to now settle in with each other and form community it's always important to take time and to meet those around us so before we do so i just have a question to ask you and you can choose to share that question with the people and share your answer to that question with the people in front of you or behind you or cross the aisle and the question is what feelings memories thoughts are you sitting with right now what feelings memories thoughts are you sitting with right now so take a moment and then find someone next to you across the aisle in front or in back of you introduce yourself and share me too it's a lot of fun yesterday too so so so so hello hi elohim shaman page 48 page 48. i hello me is hello be page 48 we're about to do our nisim behol yom and i realize before we do this that my blessings uh some of which are up on the wall and we invite you to add your blessings to them any time you want during our service today some of my blessings are right up here i want to make sure everyone knows shelly fox our cantorial soloist michael alfara on piano and heading our choir our senior rabbi mari chernow and um rabbi calvin dax decosta and i am michelle massagia and it's really great to join you today so as we rise for our daily blessings on page 80 48 think about your own blessings in your life as well as we offer these you can also think of your own page 48. who has implanted mind and instinct within every living who has made me in your image who has made me to who opens the eyes of the blind who brings freedom to the captive who provides for all my needs who crowns israel we'll remove sleep from the eyes and slumber from the eyelids page 50. foreign foreign the one is the one is happy are the ones who sit who dwell in god's creative world imagine happiness coming from dwelling from sitting from stopping you can sit sit take a breath sit try it not rushing from one thing to the next ashrae yo imagine finding happiness in just pausing help us pause page55 oh they shall sing they shall see your praises forever so true story i live across the street from a public school a middle school and this morning the kids were walking to school with their musical instruments and the first person i thought of was shelley because i thought how happy she was aft when once we got to start playing instruments together and hearing music together page 57 hallelujah is all about the beauty of music and instruments in our breath join us oh oh oh oh it's oh on rosh hashanah it is said god sits on vanessa page 58 god sits your shove on god's metaphoric throne of glory and there it is again pausing sitting waiting for us to be present you know the largest organism on earth are the aspen trees whose colonies can clone up to five miles and their roots are all connected and they talk to each other they communicate they sit and they stand tall but they're not passive they're active they're always present so imagine now the source of life sitting metaphorically on the throne of all thrones sitting next to each of us waiting for us to pause for us to take in holiness page 58 please rise is love oh is we continue standing and face east toward jerusalem page 60. oh can be seated oh abby is our first speaker she's speaking on page 61 about ahava raba hi shanatova um the prayer ahavaraba is about god's deep foundless love for us which is expressed through the meat's vote this makes sense to me as i tend to feel most connected to god when i'm performing neatsville during my weekly shifts at teen line a teen to teen crisis hotline as i step into the hotline room or join the call for my room i'm able to put all of my personal anxieties aside in order to direct my attention and care to someone in need of my help by stepping into a complete stranger's world for the duration of a call i believe i'm able to gain a sense of perspective my job is to step back and listen to the caller and provide them with a sense of respect and care which i believe is essentially the goal of most meets vote over my years at teen line i've been struck with by the many things i have in common with callers but also by how profound the differences can be between me and someone else the same age as me when i finish a call i'm simultaneously able to see my enormous impact on a single person but also feel how power but also often feel how powerless it can be when i haven't done enough the world feels so small after forming a connection with someone thousands of miles away who i wouldn't have otherwise spoken to yet i'm also reminded of just how vast the world is and how i've been sheltered from so much of it these feelings often leave me ending a shift thinking about the teaching that we're supposed to carry two pieces of paper in our pockets one that says for my sake the world was created and the other saying i am but dust and ashes i believe this is how god intends us to feel where while performing meets both powerful and yet humbled thank you sixty-one ah love and compassion oh we oh oh who they are page 62. please join me when you love adonai alohecha body and soul these things i ask of you will be possible to answer your children's questions about me and believe the answers yourself to connect religion to your everyday comings and goings for example when you hug them in bed at night with tender words shema israel or when you think to say moda ani in the rush of getting them up and out in the morning to be alert enough to open the doors for your children in every waking moment and when they dream and finally to remember just why all these things matter they matter because i aranaelo brought you and your children out of egypt to be your god for i am god and when you do these things i will be your children's god. oh oh we take a few moments to do the second and third paragraphs on our own if you are wearing a talit it's traditional to gather all that seed into one hand and especially during this past years to collect the broken parts of yourselves the strong parts of yourselves the parts of yourself that you need to heal and every time you get up to the word seat seat or fringe it's traditional to kiss your fringes in the third paragraph foreign on page 65 michael alfara will be reflecting on mihamoha thank you good morning uh the mikhamukha prayer is the song moses and miriam sang after making it through the sea of reeds after the israelites escaped egyptian slavery now i've sung the mihamoha prayer from the piano hundreds of times and probably over a thousand times now by my count but i never had occasion to deeply contemplate the translation until the clergy invited me to in preparation for today and i'll be honest with you my reaction to the mikhamoko translation was very much a musician's reaction who is like you adonai with a new song the ones you rescued praised your name at the seashore now hold on wait a second a new song we all just left everything we knew behind defied the laws of physics by walking through the sea only to turn and watch that same sea swallow our captors to their deaths who among us is going to have the time creative energy or focus to write a new song after all we've been through or maybe the song was spontaneous because the way the torah tells the story moses and the israelites and miriam and the women all burst forth in unison when they got to the other side were there rehearsals had someone distributed sheet music because moses's song is 34 lines long and i could show you as a lyric sheet so i'm half joking of course but i think there's an earnest answer to my questions in the experience we are all living today because as much as i wish i could believe that the pandemic is behind us i think the truth is we have not yet made it all the way through to the other side of this particular sea how are we going to sing a new song when we come out on the other side who's going to write it and how are we all going to learn it the answer i think is that we are all already writing that new song right here as we move through we musicians have had no choice but to sing a new song in a very literal sense over this past year as we adapted to making music in new and unfamiliar ways zoom shabbat services streamed from home voice lessons via face time and choir rehearsals on football fields in an unfamiliar world we have learned new songs out of necessity and i know musicians are not the only people who are feeling this way every one of us no matter our profession has felt the pressure of change over the past year and a half and we are all learning to sing our new song in masks six feet apart with hand sanitizer in our pockets and proof of vaccine on our phones we will make it through to the other shore and we will burst forth together all together in song when we get there just like moses and miriam and all the men and women of israel who made their way out of slavery and into safety and we won't need to rehearse it because we're rehearsing it already right here and right now meet kamoka that night is oh foreign i don't know is age 67 but is me all right is me to heal um my then is me me robbie please is oh me roger schwartz will introduce unitana together if you're able to you can continue standing if you need to sit please sit we're on page 70. the united staff has challenged me to take seriously the idea that i and we are critical parts of the eternal one who will determine our destiny and fate for the coming year their prayer says that this one this king knows everything about me throughout the year i've been naked in his presence nowhere to hide it says that on yom kippur a book will open and the king's judgment will be written in there not only that but my signature and yours will be there too in a sense i see that king that judge lover and the kind frightening one of the prayers me often i have experiences that feel like miracles when something comes to me out of the blue that guides my action it sorts seems within me and yet way beyond me at the same time what little i understand about neochassidism captures the idea that there is only the one that everything is god and even though i can control much of my destiny there's a lot that's left to fate the a.a serenity prayer is my source for the wisdom to know the difference last week at the tioh men's torah study on era of shabbat i taught on parashat nisabeem for the sixth time each time trying to get it right it opens as the israelites are about to enter the promised land when moses assembled everyone to enter into the covenant with god that will bind them and us for all time god the king admonishes i give you life i give you death choose life that you may live that parsha is so important that it is read again on yom kippur when atana tokef is a gut-wrenching reminder of the unknowable one commanding me us to choose life in the face of the awesome and mysterious challenge that comes with it thank you oh me free let us proclaim the sacred power of this day it is awesome and full of dread for on this day your dominion is exalted your throne established in steadfast love there in truth you reign in truth you are judge and arbiter counsel and witness you write and you seal you record and you recount you remember deeds long forgotten you open the book of our days and what is written there proclaims itself for it bears the signature of every human being the great shofar is sounded the still small voice is heard the angels gripped by fear and trembling declare in awe this is the day of judgment for even the hosts of heaven are judged as all who dwell on earth stand arrayed before you as the shepherd seeks out the flock and makes the sheep pass under the staff so do you muster and number and consider every soul setting the bounds of every creature's life and decreeing its destiny oh him me um um me oh me oh oh let's read together the top of page 71 on rosh hashanah it is written on yom kippur it is sealed how many pass on and how many thrive who lives on and who dies whose death is timely and whose is not who dies by fire and who by drowning who by the sword and who by the beast who by hunger and who by thirst who by an earthquake who by a plague who by strangling and who by stoning who dwells in peace and who is uprooted who lives safely and who is harmed whose life is tranquil and whose is tormented who is poor and who is wealthy and who is raised up but repentance prayer and righteous deeds enable us to pass through the most severe decree oh is our origin is dust and dust is our end each of us is a shattered urn a grass grass that must wither a flower that will fade a shadow moving on a cloud passing by a particle of dust floating in the wind a dream soon forgotten but you are ever present whose dominion transcends all thought and spirit the everlasting god we continue with kedusha which we will be followed by some time for personal prayer please pray as long as you like and be seated when you're finished so oh um foreign oh so so i oh is foreign told rica fisher will be introducing avinu makenu uh when i was asked to reflect on the prayer of vino volcano this morning i had an immediate and almost gut punch memory it reached back to 1963 when i was about 14 years old and i was a speaker at my confirmation class in that year was the horrific birmingham church bombing and three girls my age were dead from a brutal racist attack i was horrified and i was really angry and it was the first time that news had permeated my safe little bubble so from the bema that morning with all my youthful zeal i railed away at a very much unsettled startled congregation and i asked of the room that day why does it take a crisis for people to act why is it the too often only after hatred violence and catastrophes that people maybe start asking questions searching for accountability and solutions i came of age in the upheavals of the sixties assassinations berkeley riots vietnam watergate and all these events sear one's perspective some 60 years later here we are struggling to cope with punishing cycles of terrible news rages of bigotry and tolerance violence in our family some of these headlines become very personal our daughter married an ex-marine here at temple israel on that bema he had once been deployed to iraq and then to afghanistan and yes he came home with ptsd and stories too awful to tell us and slowly as we began to learn more about his tour of duty war became more real than headlines and tv reports and we opened our hearts and minds to veterans global warming has come close to our home my husband's childhood home in new orleans was shattered into matchsticks during katrina and family and friends still there as we all know have evacuated during ida and friends with thriving businesses and homes in lake tahoe have fled the horrific caldorf fire and they took refuge out of state hate crimes our synagogue as we know is protected by armed guards i have friends in london who report they won't wear a jewish star or a kippah in public worried about random harassments my life-flying life-long friend japanese american lives a very wonderful life in the bay area but now she's afraid to go out alone because of these insane coveted conspiracies friends of mine must have the talk with their sons because of random attacks on young black men so shaped by these milestones i share with you today that i don't believe we should be asking god to solve our problems he or she isn't listening to me or us about this crisis or that otherwise calamities and chaos would be vanquished and yet i believe that albino volcano reminds us to have a faith that god is some extraordinary unfathomable cosmic force and it's not god's job to fix our problems it is our job as my husband often reminds me the helping hand you seek is the end of your arm perhaps it is this universal energy that deeply affects me and inspires me still to be a strong and kind and responsible person vigilant and sensitive to the injustices in our world i'm still that 13 year old kid fighting the good fight and hoping that we each take good care of ourselves and each other please rise page 83. of thee hear our voice here be compassionate with us and with our children inspire us to fulfill your vision by ending sickness war and famine avinu malcanu kalec kotsar umastine move to move all of humanity to end oppression oh oh oh oh oh oh be gracious with us and respond to us for we have too few good deeds place in our hearts the inspiration and will to act righteously gently and lovingly and bring us meaning and salvation oh see please be seated a long time ago when there were blockbusters my parents took me and my sister to pick out something for us to each watch and my sister went straight for her tried and true something starring the olsen twins which she's probably already seen 10 times but i decided to walk up and down the aisles as though i were some super edgy movie buff and my dad recognizing that i could be there for hours just grabbed a box handed to me and assured me that it was a classic but i looked at the cover wide-eyed hesitant only slightly comforted by the pg rating brought it up to the counter paid for it and we went home when we got home i propped up my folding chair in my room i pushed the vhs into my tv i dimmed the lights a little bit and sat down the movie started the first scene ended and i jumped up and ejected the tape sufficiently traumatized i walked out of the room and paced around the house looking for anything to take my mind off of what i just watched my dad bumped into me in the kitchen oh how do you like it so far oh it's great it's great it's terrific i i love it so i'm probably gonna finish it tomorrow though it's a lot it's it's good it's good it's really good it would be years until i worked up the courage to finally watch jaws again and let me tell you i am so grateful that i did pg rating after getting through after getting through that first scene again i was amazed that you never see the shark in that first scene but you know it's there and this sets up the mute the movie beautifully for the rest of the film because any time you see the water you know the shark is somewhere close by and whenever you hear those two notes done you know you know the shark is coming so later in the movie our three main characters the police chief an oceanographer and a shark fisherman are out at sea at night relaxing in the cabin of their boats they're waiting for the shark to show up again and these relative strangers begin sharing stories of various scars that they have that they earned in brawls or arm wrestling matches or other encounters with sea creatures and as the two of them around the table continue to try to one-up the other we get a shot of the police chief standing at a bit of a distance slightly raising up his shirt clearly looking at his own scar trying to figure out if he's comfortable enough to share the story of how he got it and it's at this point in the scene that the tone shifts we've moved from the external and visible signs to the internal and invisible scars as the oceanographer jokingly offers that his heart was once broken by a former love and then the police chief who's been standing at a distance not revealing anything himself he notices that the shark fisherman has a mark on his arm he hasn't shared about it yet though and so he asks how'd you get that and the shark fisherman reveals that it was a tattoo that he once had but he got it removed but now there's a bit of a tension that's rising because the scar remains even though he tried to rid himself of the pain that caused it he can't hide it anymore though so he shares the story and over the next four minutes the character delivers a harrowing monologue about his time on the uss indianapolis a real world war ii naval ship sent on a secret mission to deliver parts of the atomic bomb the ship sank when it was hit by japanese torpedoes killing about 300 men on impact out at sea floating between life and death dehydration and shark attacks the remaining 900 men waited for rescue that wasn't coming 316 men survived this scene is a small but incredible look into the lingering effects of trauma how it affects our interactions with others and how deep down there's a desire inside of all of us for our pain to be witnessed to cry out and be heard hiney here i am to be human is to live in the anticipation of pain and suffering our lives are brief our end is unpredictable and all that we love will ultimately lose suffering and loss are hallmarks of the human experience and yet they don't make any sense to us the greek word for wound is trauma and while this idea is typically associated with the extreme psychological or physical shock trauma can result from any experience which overwhelms the coping mechanism of an organism having lasting adverse effects on an individual's functioning as well as their mental physical social emotional and or spiritual well-being responses to trauma are embedded in the parts of our brain concerned with survival as isolating as pain can be in a counter-intuitive way it is life-affirming we don't want to feel pain nor do we want to suffer our once irrationally and subconsciously perceived immortality disappears and we're forced to con confront the fragile nature of our finite humanity we feel because we are when we try to discuss suffering within a religious context we often categorize our questions into those of theodicy questions concerning the nature of god and why our pain was permitted to exist in the first place this kind of thinking shifts god to the center of our conversation marginalizing our subjective human experiences french philosopher emmanuel levinos believed that it was essential for us to disregard theodicy as this outdated philosophical model for lebanon our understandings of the universe ultimately don't matter unless we can come to recognize someone when they are in pain or have experienced trauma the one who is suffering whom lebanon refers to as the other is only recognizable when we become fully aware of them when we react to and engage with them the other is not god but another human being and because of this levinas believed that the meaning of something is in its relation to another thing that our sense of self becomes defined through the encounter with the other and we must be ready to respond to the other when we encounter them just as they cry out to us and their suffering hinani we have to call back here i am the torah portion we're about to read is bookended by trauma abraham has just sent away his son ishmael to die in the wilderness and after this unimaginable burden god approaches him with a test and abraham responds he name me i'm here and god tells abraham take your son your favorite son the one whom you love isaac and lechlicha go forth offer him as a burnt offering from here until the end of this experience torah gives us a sparse and surface level encounter as we witness the scars forming abraham and isaac leave sarah behind and when they arrive at their destination they leave their servants behind telling them that they will be back down from the mountain after they worship and now it's just abraham and isaac ascending the mountaintop together and isaac begins to question hey dad abraham responds again with hiney so i see that we're going to offer some sacrifices there's the wood here's the flint to start the fire where's the sheep god will see to the sheep from the offering my son the two don't speak again for the rest of this journey to the top of the mountain and upon reaching the top abraham binds isaac to the pile of wood he draws back his knife about to kill his son when an angel calls out to him abraham abraham the text gives us no insight as to what abraham is going through but we bear witness to the pain abraham is the same man who bargained with god over saving sodom and gomorrah if there were at least 10 good people living there it's the same man who sent off his firstborn to die in the wilderness is the same man who was then asked to kill his only other son it's no wonder that abraham's response to the angel is hineny here i am please i'm hurting the trauma of the akedah persists we never learn if sarah even knows where abraham and isaac go off to and the next time we see her she dies abraham and isaac don't speak again for the rest of abraham's life or at least not reflected in the torah text and the two of them are never mentioned as being together isaac clings to rebecca almost immediately upon meeting her as she is the first person he's able to find comfort in after his mother's death whether these stories happen or not there's truth to the pain that our text captures our tradition emphasizes that even from the beginning trauma is a part of the human condition moments like the exile from the garden of eden the first murder the great flood which wiped out the entire population of the world the technological disaster of the tower of babel what other traumas are we still trying to make sense of how does this pain affect how we experience the world around us we can try to suppress our emotions when they become overwhelming we can try to hide our pain and recoil from the world fearful that someone even ourselves might see our scars we move through our cycles year after year absorbing the pain and memories of those we encounter throughout our lives we carry these with us and pieces of it remain sometimes becoming who we are but often reflecting who we always were the high holidays invite us to reflect on the ways that we may have hurt others but the season also gives us a chance to be honest with ourselves about our own pain we confess as a community to demonstrate that we are never alone in this journey we experience each other calling out hineny here i am and we acknowledge each other in our vulnerability responding i'm here the story in the babylonian talmud shares that shimon bar yokai spent about 12 years in a cave dwelling in reclusion with his only other son as a companion and after he re-emerged from his cave rabbi pinchas ben yair heard of his return and went to go greet him he brought rabbi shimon to the bathhouse to tend to his skin because it had been terribly cracked and damaged from the dark and dry environment of the cave and rabbi pinkas began to cry tears falling from his eyes the sight of rabbi shimon's great physical pain rabbi pinchas said to him woe is me that i have to see you like this my friends with such wounds from your time in isolation but to his surprise rabbi shimon responded happy you should see me like this for if you had not seen me this way you would not have found me at all over this next week may we be open to and acknowledge the scars that we have developed and may we come to recognize that pain always has a place in our communities after all were the people who carried around broken tablets and called them holy do do we continue with the torah service i believe on page 83 steve and eileen horowitz please come to the york my foreign i love my life my my oh foreign you oh hello oh please be seated the traditional reading for second day rosh hashanah is found on page 93 we will dive right into this difficult story that rabbi calvin introduced and taking some time to contemplate our own dark experiences how we meet one another in vulnerability and how we pray we heal from those experiences we will be asking you in various groups to bless the torah to do the aliyah bless the reading and we'll have you stand where you are so we're not gathering too many folks together in this moment of time and rabbi michelle will come around and maybe prop up the mic so that somebody uh can lead but if you're at home please rise and help bless the torah and here as well so first first aliyah if you have become bar or about mitzvah if you become bane mitzvah at temple israel of hollywood would you please rise ever yes ever in history yes how beautiful to see our students of torah now adults lead us in a blessing and reading from the torah is darcy weber beautiful we thank our leaders from recent and long ago days who have come here to read torah for our next aliyah we'd like to call on those who are celebrating your first high holy days here at temple israel of hollywood would you please rise and bless the torah our torah reader is jeff bernhardt our incredible teacher of many many generations of students and our executive director zach lasker is going to help lead the aliyah bartholomew which i'm looking for in the prayer book verse 6. thank you top of page 94. ah all of our new visitors and members wholeheartedly welcome you on this rosh hashanah turning to misha bera we take a few deep breaths and think about those in our lives who are hurting in body mind or soul there is somebody who's on your mind on this rosh hashanah in our chorus of names just call them out when i'm in your general area would you please share their name now for our third aliyah would you please this is a total indulgence would you please just indulge me one time if you've been to arizona would you bless the torah thank you wow that's amazing so just uh send a little blessing to those saguaros and to my dear friends over there if you would thank you come on up ah and the closing blessings would you please come lift and dress the torah those who have never been to arizona now you can rise is okay so so please be seated this beautiful selection from jeremiah for our haftarah portion comes in a surprising moment for jeremiah who's known as the weeping prophet it is during the time of exile and throughout the very very difficult period of exile he talks about a beautiful vision of hope and return i want to share just a few lines that come from a little bit later in the text again remember the people are outside of the land they're lonely and afraid and wondering if their lives will ever be rebuilt the way they knew them and jeremiah says they shall come and shout out on the heights of zion radiant over the bounty of adonai over new grain and wine and oil over sheep and cattle so much abundance they shall fare like a watered garden they shall never languish again young women will dance gaily young men and old alike i will turn their mourning into joy i will comfort them and uplift them through their grief it's our honor to have mitzi schwartz read the chant the blessings and via video our beloved cantor aviva rosenbloom will be chanting hoftorah a foreign i oh hello um is one turning to the great alenu in just a moment i'll ask you to rise in just a moment find a spot if you'd like find a spot in the isles or up front here or somewhere that you have enough room to engage in the full prostration the full bow which we only do from time to time in the jewish tradition just a word about that ricka spoke so beautifully earlier about the human responsibility the way that our tradition says to us there's very little that we can say it's not my problem i'm not going to worry about that and she illustrated the many ills of our society happening earlier and now that we need to take responsibility for and i'm going to say that's about 95 percent of the jewish the message of the jewish tradition is you have to take responsibility we have to take responsibility and in allenus we go to the other five percent which says i can't handle everything i can't fix everything so as we lay ourselves down fully and surrender to forces greater than ourselves perhaps we can feel just a little bit of the weight of the world lift off of our shoulders we can let greater forces than ourselves solve them so that when we stand back up we're ready to return to the work we have to do please rise page 106. the time has come to sound the horn its solemn soulful cry carrying us back to the time when sound and soul were first created its yearning notes lifting us into the time to come when a new and just creation will dawn for all of humanity ah oh she oh oh oh please remain standing for our shofar service we'd like to invite up eric levander will be blowing so far for us this morning he is following cobot protocols masking up his shofar we appreciate that we are on page o seven my uh foreign tequila okay the second section is zekro note take in all of the zikr note the memories of this past year the positive the negative the difficult the inspiring bring it all together tequila tequila tequila foreign oh oh the third set show frotenu the sounds that wake us up this time of year page 110 shivarim true um foreign oh oh my pleasure to call on mitchell schwartz to lead us in a blessing for our nation and for our beloved state of israel our father in heaven rock and redeemer of israel bless the state of israel the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption shield it with your lovingkindness envelope it in your peace and bestow your light and truth upon its leaders ministers and advisors and grace them with your good counsel strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land grant them deliverance and adorn them in a mantle of victory ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness and for our nation we pray for all those who hold positions of leadership and responsibility in our national life let your blessing rest upon them and inspire them to be responsive to your will so that our nation may be to the world an example of justice and compassion we return the safer torah to the ark hallelujah is oh it's is god page 114 as we turn to kadeshiatom yehuda writes our angels spend much of their time sleeping no matter how long they may sleep 100 200 years 10 centuries is not too much the first to wake up takes the torch that has been handed down adds a drop of oil to the lamp blesses the eternal light and then recalls the name of every other angel and one by one as they are remembered they wake up for them as for us there is nothing more beautiful than memory if there's somebody you are remembering on this rosh hashanah i invite you to please share their name now is a man amen the romans oh may the lord be the one who makes peace please oh oh oh please remember your orange bracelet for next week uh please remember that these days are difficult and require work let's do it so that we've done it by the next time we see each other and even if with all the hard work that we have to do let's recall that this day is a great celebration this last shalom that we're going to conclude with was written by our friends from nava tehela in jerusalem i know we're restraining ourselves a little bit with our masks but through our singing and through our kavanaugh and through our hearts let's see if they can hear us all the way in jerusalem is there you go me oh foreign thank you james and nema foreign

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