{"id":9561,"date":"2002-09-13T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2002-09-13T19:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=9561"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T14:52:48","slug":"september-13-2002-jewish-high-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2002\/09\/13\/september-13-2002-jewish-high-holidays\/9561\/","title":{"rendered":" Jewish High Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOB ABERNETHY<\/strong>: On our calendar this week, the Jewish high holy  days, which began Friday, September 6 with Rosh Hashana &#8212; the Jewish  new year &#8212; and end September 16 with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.  We went to Rosh Hashana services at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in  New York; and first, to a purification rite called &#8220;tashlikh,&#8221; performed  in Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi <strong>GARY BRETTON-GRANATOOR<\/strong> (Stephen Wise Free Synagogue): Today  we come to this body of water to perform the tashlikh ceremony&#8230; so  that we may purify our hearts and our souls as the new year begins&#8230;  &#8220;Avaynu malkaynu hanaynu&#8221; &#8230; and now if you take a piece of bread, as  you throw it into the water, symbolically cast away your sins and let us  be pure as we start this new year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2011\/09\/post01-highholidays-bretton.jpg\" alt=\"Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor\" width=\"270\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9574\" \/>God has hopes for us. And in a way we have to try to live up to those  hopes&#8230; It&#8217;s part of the human condition. We are flawed. And sometimes  our flaws weigh us down especially when we want to try to become better  people. If we allow our sins to weigh us down, we&#8217;ll never be able to  free ourselves from our mistakes. &#8230; So we have to, after a real  analysis of who we are and what we are and what our faults are, try to  be able to cast them away. But we don&#8217;t cast them away without  acknowledging what they&#8217;re all about. We cast them away by saying I know  what I&#8217;ve done and I want to do &#8220;chuva,&#8221; I want to change.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the heavens are open. We believe that God is giving us a chance&#8230; the gates of heaven are open to allow us to better ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>The shofar is meant to really wake us up. It&#8217;s kind of like a  spiritual alarm clock. Wake up! Recognize that you have a chance to  make this world better. And it&#8217;s a plaintive cry, so we also hear  that God is saying, &#8220;Come back, come back to me,&#8221; as any parent would to  a child.<\/p>\n<p>Repentance, prayer, and charity are the hallmark[s] of this season.  We search our souls and then we pour out our souls to God, saying, &#8220;God  help us, give us the strength to be the kind of people that we want to  be.&#8221; But that&#8217;s all meaningless unless it compels us to do the right  thing. And that&#8217;s what charity is all about. Those are the required  actions even in the wake of September 11. Have we done the work of caring for others?<\/p>\n<p>There is apples and honey here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Apples are a symbol of life. And honey is a symbol of sweetness. And as  we enter into this new year, we want to recognize that life is renewed  and it should be a sweet year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a time when we feel that we&#8217;re being judged, when we judge  ourselves very severely, and yet we&#8217;re living in an incredible world. We  are surrounded by beauty; we&#8217;re surrounded by wonderful acts of  generosity, of selflessness, and we have to stop for a moment and  recognize how truly lucky we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Repentance, prayer, and charity are the hallmark[s] of this season,&#8221; says Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, &#8220;We search our souls and then we pour out our souls to God, saying, &#8216;God help us, give us the strength to be the kind of people that we want to  be.'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2002\/09\/13\/september-13-2002-jewish-high-holidays\/9561\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":17486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5764,978,17918,6304,7944,6250,1346,6033,987,6034,6251,2165],"class_list":["post-9561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charity","tag-holidays","tag-jewish","tag-jewish-high-holidays","tag-purification","tag-repentance","tag-ritual","tag-rosh-hashanah","tag-september-11","tag-shofar","tag-tashlikh","tag-yom-kippur","topics-belief-and-practice","faith-jewish","spotlight-jewish-high-holy-days"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>September 13, 2002 ~ Jewish High Holidays | September 13, 2002 | Religion &amp; 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