Reboot

Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

Time is not a train of cars hitched one to another, one year dragged along by the year preceding, the present hitched tightly to the past, the future enslaved to the present. Rather, every year arrives fresh from its Creator, a year that never was before and could never have been known before its arrival.

That is why we call Rosh Hashana "the birthday of the world" in our prayers. The past has returned to its place, never to return. With the blowing of the shofar, the entirety of Creation is renewed. From this point on, even the past exists only by virtue of the present.

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Posted: Sep 8, 2010

I love Rosh Hashana, and I hope G-d will bless me with a sweet and prosperous year!! Thank you for posting this article, it is nicely written.

Posted By Anonymous

Posted: Sep 14, 2009

Solomon said what we have now we have had before - nothing is new under the sun. This would go along with the theory of the universe contracting - and finally becoming infinitely small as a singularity. The second law of thermodynamics explains the universal energy levels decreasing to absolute zero where all atoms cease to move. Then BOOM - the BIG BANG theory - the universe begins again - G-d's creation miracle begins anew.

Posted By Gil, Great Neck, N.Y., USA

Posted: Sep 13, 2009

G-d knew it before, didn't he?

I am glad, that on Rosh Hashana a year begins totally anew and I am allowed to forget the past.
"...Could never had be known before its arrival..."?
But our Creator did know it before, and He does already know what happens. True???
For Him there is no past or present or future, but alway "now". It gives me a good feeling, that he "knows", while I grope my way around in the darkness of "not knowing" and sometimes "not understanding".
Thanks - like always - for the Daily Dose!

Posted By Michal

Rosh Hashanah Meditations


	The Ultimate Author


	Hide & Seek


	Why Not Mother?


	The Cosmic Mirror


	The Cry


	Animal Cry


	Editing the Past


	Reboot


	The Drama


	We Are the Child


	The Mystery of Rosh Hashanah


	Shofar


	Father's Anticipation


	Happy Birthday, Universe


	Our Father, Our King

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