Dearest Family and Friends:
The summer was barely here and now it’s gone. Sweet Rosh
HaShana is upon us. Soon, the leaves will start to turn; can winter be far behind? Months fly by as if they were days. Only yesterday we were children. Now we are adults, parents and grandparents, responsible for our deeds and for each other.
Blood Libels are also upon us; they arrive with dizzying, heart-sickening speed and are truly abominable. Our precious Israel has been totally encircled by Big Lies and hatred. The fate of Israel is humanity’s fate, not merely Jewish fate. Israel’s destiny represents the destiny of Western civilization and that of civilized humanity everywhere. What happens to Israel will determine whether civilized humanity will—or will not–prevail over the forces of Evil.
Art by Irv Davis
May we find comfort and joy in performing mitzvot, obeying our commandments as best we can, and may we be refreshed as we begin to read the Torah anew, again, an occasion which is also upon us. Soon, we will all be back in Paradise, ejected, but not rejected, on the road, moving ever east of Eden, unleashed into History, embracing our covenental destinies as we, like Avraham turn ourselves around, turn to ourselves, turn ourselves inside out in order to remain close to God.
Let us remember that at least two precious souls still remain in captivity: Gilad Shalit and Jonathan Pollard. May they be returned to us.
May your year be healthy, productive, and prosperous and may you all be inscribed in the great Book of Life.
Shana Tova U’Metukah
G’mar Chatimah Tova
With love,
Phyllis Chesler
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Happy 5770, everyone. May the New Year bring peace, freedom, and security to the world.
I can see why Rosh Hashanah is referred to as the chief of days. How one begins influences a great part as to how one ends.
One other thing, Phyllis, wisdom that is grounded in the unchanging is blest by the one who is eternal. So, let us, like Solomon, ask for wisdom, and an ever increasing amount for each of the days that follow.
Shalom, friend.
Asato ma sat gamaya (from untruth lead me to Truth)
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya (from darkness lead to Light)
Mrityorma amritam gamaya (from death lead me to Imortality).
Happy Rosh HaShana!
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To wish we be written in the Great Book of Life is a gift beyond comparison. Thank you and the same wish for you and all who long to be included.
I hope and pray that all the souls in torment will soon be comforted.
Happy New Year.
For some reason this feels like a time for sadness. I will have to shake myself out of it.
Shana Tova from this Australian Gentile.
Remember Zechariah 2: 5, where the LORD says, through the prophet: “For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her [Jerusalem] a wall of fire round about here, and will be the glory in the midst of her”.
May He indeed be a wall of fire round about all the House of Israel, and may He be the glory in your midst.
Oops. A small typo in my posting above. It should be “a wall of fire round about *her*..”.
Phyllis, thank you and wishing the same for you, your loved ones and fellow human beings.
Good health, Joy and Goodwill to all.
Happy New Year!!!
Phyllis, may you be written in the book for a happy and a healthy year. May God bless Israel and may God bless America.
To all the readers and writers at Pajamas Media, a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.
And, of course, this is the day on which the NY Times reports that Iran is holding pro-Palestinian rallies, and Iranian “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (the guy who has just ordered the arrest of the FAMILIES of those who protested the ballot-rigging that resulted in his re-election. Can you say Stalin, boys and girls?) calls the Holocaust a myth. But, take heart; Judaism is 5770 and Christianity about 2000, and both of us will be around long after the infidel/infantile “religion” of islam has been reduced to dust and ashes.
Happy New Year to you, Phyllis. I love the words “turn ourselves inside out in order to remain close to God.”
Thank you for the Wishes, and I send them you All back, even if I don’t fully understand them. Glad to know about Year 5’770 (at Least so old!), and I just want to contribute to this collective Meditation for the New Year (ashamed but I knew about it just right Now), forwarding this (my Opinion) enlightening Article: http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=156&Itemid=2 . I wish you and us All: Truth, Joy, and beautiful Actions to get and to give. Lovely Regards.
Blessings on you all through this next cycle — as always I will look to this corner for the light. Autumn shows us the beauty in endings,just as spring show the joy of beginning.
Dear Dr.Chesler,
שנה טובה ומתוקה ומלאה בבריאות אושר ועושר לך ומשפחתך
יהי רצון שניכתב בספר חיים ספר פרנסה וספר חוכמה
May you and your family have a good and sweet year filled with health, happiness and prosperity. May it be the will of the Almighty that we all be inscribed in the Book of Life, the Book of Prosperity and the Book of Wisdom.
Happy New Year Phyllis.
Shana Tova, Phyllis.