Ten ways we can prepare for and enhance our Rosh Hashanah Experience-
1) Psalm 27 is traditionally recited at this season. Choose one phrase and mull it over twice per day.
2) Incorporate honey as a condiment or flavoring at every meal until Oct.25 (Simchas Torah ends).Be creative in your cooking. Have a sweet year!
3) Carry a small memento, piece of jewelry or snapshot from a loved one with you as you enter Synagogue for services. Reflect upon what you have learned from that person.
4) Call a friend or acquaintance with whom you haven't spoken and have a good and caring conversation.
5) Observe the Moon's phases over the next two weeks and remember that we Jews have been telling time in this way for 3,000 years.
6) Wish your loved ones L'Shanah Tova Tikateivu (means May you be inscribed for a good year) with Hebrew words instead of saying Happy New Year which doesn't mean the same thing.
7) Sing a little louder in Synagogue and don't be so self-conscious!
8) Invite a friend to your home and watch this video together. (Fountainheads is the group’s name )https://www.youtube.com/watch?
9) Donate Tzedakah to a Jewish organization which you have not yet supported.
10) Commit to eat in the Sukkah at least once this year!
Rosh Hashanah is nearly upon us! Jewish tradition associates Rosh Hashanah with the creation of the universe. Such an association is very insightful. A threshold into Yom Kippur whereby we are challenged to improve our lives through seeking and granting forgiveness, Rosh Hashanah celebrates the sum total of all reality. Moral and spiritual improvement of and by Jews is connected to the entire universe. Put another way, the universe is the physical scaffold upon which we Jews are obligated to improve our lives! May this year of 5777 be a year of moral and spiritual improvement for us all, influencing all reality which surrounds us! L’shanah Tova Tikateivu! –Rabbi Steven Silberman
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