What a joy to celebrate and pray with you over the High Holy Days 5773!    Having received the gift of cleansing and release on Yom Kippur, the next 4 days are preparation for a new Joy, the simhah of Sukkot. The spiritual work of the Days of Awe is to fashion a new lens to refract the light of the Infinite in to our World of Tangibility. We have built a new Divine Name that we pray will bring a year of deep structural healing.

During these next 4 days this new name of the Divine is realized: a letter each day – yod, hey, vav, hey –Sunday Monday Tuesday, Wednesday. With the full moon of Sukkot we rest, along with all our Supernal Guests, in the Shade of Faith of our temporary dwellings offering gratitude for the earth and her bounty. With hopes and prayers for a blessed year as we are guided by our wisdom-of-heart,

 Rabbi SaraLeya

11 Tishrei 5773 |  October 9, 2011