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From the Rabbi’s Study Bruchim ha-ba-im -- welcome back! Coming out of the “off” months at the Astoria Center of Israel, we prepare now to come together for another year filled with great promise, stimulating programing, and strengthening ties, all emanating from -- and geared towards -- our profuse and fertile Jewish heritage. With the High Holidays upon us, we can -- and must – personally reflect not only the year past and all that we could have and should have done better, but on the year to come and how we will do better. This time period affords us the precious opportunities to assess our relationships, connections, involvements, attitudes, commitments, directions, and obligations towards each other, our families, friends, synagogue, and communities. And after the serious assessments of the Yamin Nora’im (The Days of Awe), we are blessed to greet and celebrate Sukkot, during which time we experience the holiday’s great joy, earthiness, reality, history, wondrous aromas, and visual beauty. As we reflect, assess, observe, rejoice, and recommit, let us remember and treasure our common heritage and destiny, let us set priorities straight, let us open our hearts with love, compassion, moral discernment and good judgement. May we all be re-inscribed in the “book of life” for a sweet, healthy, and wonderful New Year of peace, prosperity, and blessing. Judy, Ayelet, Eitan, Noam, and I extend to each of you our best wishes for a shanah tova u-m’tukah – a good and sweet year. Rabbi Jonathan Pearl, Ph.D.
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