Sisterhood in the Sukkah Thursday, Sept. 27 8:00 PM Torah and Tinis in the Sukkah with Rabbi Tracy Koplansky as our featured speaker. Join us to hear her thoughts on the holiday and its relevance to us. The cost is $10. Snacks and drinks will be served. There will be a Sisterhood box near the office for donations to the food pantry. Please bring a Kosher canned or dry food to donate and drop it in the box prior to our program. CLICK HERE to sign up or email sisterhood@cbohr.org to register.
From Rabbi Bernstein
Shabbat Shalom!
You might think that the season of repentance is over, but we’re going strong until Hoshanah Rabbah, the 6th day of Sukkot. We know this because we recite Psalm 27, the Psalm for the Season of Repentance, twice a day up until that Hoshana Rabbah. For a copy of the Psalm, click here. So why don’t we just stop with the repentance after Yom Kippur? It’s a little anticlimactic to recite the Psalm for the evening service even though we chanted, did Havdalah and blew Shofar. I thought we were done!
We have a time of serious contemplation during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and a fair bit of Sukkot to truly show that we are repentant. Sukkot is Zman Simchateinu, the time of our rejoicing. It’s time to party! We had been cooped up sitting and standing in one place for hours over the High Holidays working on our internal lives in order to interact with the world with more justice and kindness. We switch gears very quickly, to shaking Palm Branches(+) and Citron fruits in elaborate and choreographed rain dances. The shift is so sudden that it could give us whiplash.
The extension of the Psalm allows us to apply our repentance to a more lively setting. By keeping all that work from Yom Kippur simmering on the backburner while also pursuing joy, we not only reinforce the repentance that we have done, but we learn to live a balanced life. One could not live in a world that was all Yom Kippur and one could not live in a world that was all Sukkot. No one would get anything done. We extend repentance into Sukkot because it helps us restablish and affirm a balanced life of joy and repentance.
For those who meditate, you know that the time spent sitting in focussed meditation allows you to be mindful in your on-the-move interactions. The same is true of Yom Kippur. If you can be mindful of your goals from repentance while pursuing the joys of Sukkot, then you are well on your way to striking a healthy balance of frivoloty and self scrutiny.
May we each strive for the right balance in our lives.
Shabbat shalom, Rabbi Bernstein
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