Shanna Tova

The High Holy Days were always the time we reflected on teh big existential questions of life. “Who will live and who will die?” This year we are way ahead of schedule. We have been living the question for 6 months or more. Our lives have not been about rhetoric but about existence and the uncertainty it has always had but now brought to the surface.

Rosh Hashanna was also the time for the big wish. Grandparents and or parents would call up and tell us all that they wished for us. So let me take this opportunity to wish for you, a life of health ,physical but more than ever mental as well. A life that soon returns to order and meaning. A life when we can dream again, sleep through the night again, and celebrate simchas again. A life that friends and family can gather in the flesh, hug and kiss, eat meals together, daven together, have a good scotch together during the haftorah, and never again take any of these things and many more for granted.

Shanna Tova Umetuka