From the Reform movement's daily email "Taste of Torah" this past Labor Day:
"During these High Holy Days, we are surrounded by the teachings of Torah and the prayers of our services, and one hopes that we are open to hearing them as well as the voice within. Listening is an art; we all hear the same words of Torah but may hear them in very different ways. The way we hear or give ear or understand our encounters with God can never be fully described to anyone else, even as we strive to transform the mundane into the spiritual and achieve a sense of the sacred through the way we live our lives on earth."
--Rabbi Elliot L. Stevens is the rabbi at Temple Beth Or in Montgomery, Alabama.
Wishing everyone this Yamim Nora'im the gift of hearing something new, and the ability to use our own voices to bring those sounds to life. Shanah Tovah!
2 comments:
Thinking of you and wishing you a very Happy New Year! I must come and hear you sing! That is on my list to do before I die :)
Hoping all is well with you.
Thank you so much! I had a magnificent holiday (will write about it very soon). I hope you are well, too!
--aa.
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