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Please don't squander opportunity at hand
The theater of the absurd is being played upon our national stage regarding pregnancy vis-a-vis qualifications for federal office. As a rabbi, I am reminded of the opening prayer of our Sept. 29 Rosh Hashana services: "Hayom Harat Olam! Today is the birthday of the world!" Literally the Hebrew means: "Today is pregnant with eternity!"
What wonderful opportunities we in America are given with our election process. Rosh Hashana and our ballots conceive new intentions and birth new possibilities. Today we are alive on this planet. Our choices today will gestate our children's destiny. This moment is pregnant with hopes, with insights, with opportunities as great as eternity.
While we search our hearts and listen to that "still small Voice," let us balance justice with lovingkindness. Jews sound a ram's horn, as our shofar, because it is spiraled. It reminds us to turn back toward what is right, to return from the escarpment's edge.
The Kabbalists teach that the Hebrew word "king" alludes to Hebrew words for "brain, heart and liver." Just as the liver filters blood before it enters the heart, the heart refines it further before sending it to the brain. So must a good leader be intellectually and spiritually refined.
The blasts of the shofar tell all humanity, as we vote, quoting Rabbi Seidenberg, "Today you will find courage. Today you will be blessed. Today you will be inscribed to live. Today, if you will listen to the Voice."
Rabbi Arthur Segal
Hilton Head Island
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