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It is said that every ancient tradition has a healing art, be it shamanic practice or yoga or

Ayurveda. In Judaism, the healing art is our calendar, the wheel of sacred time. These are our

daily, weekly, monthly markers for time; our annual holidays which we return to year after year.

In a way, Jewish time is like a slinky. As we return back to each holiday, year after year, we are

also rising up rung by rung. The calendar’s turning is both a return, as well as progressing.

We look back, and grow forwards.

Holidays are poignant collective moments in time, where we gather together and allow ritual

and tradition to bring us through a transformation. The holidays grow us. They are both

commemorative of the past, and also lived experientially in the present. This brings us towards

the future we are cultivating. Co-creating the world.

And so, we let the themes of the holiday guide us, support us. Pausing the flow of time to give us

an opportunity to build our lives with intention, with care, with generosity.

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The above is taken from Rabbi Bluth's beautiful and enlightening new High Holy Days Guide.

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