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18 Texas Jewish Post
In Our 60th Year September 28,2006
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The messages
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Atonement and the Phillies:
Two great mysteries of 1964
NEW YORK (JTA) — The approach of
Rosh Hashanah always takes me back to
my bar mitzvah, which took place on
Shabbat Shuvah — the “Sabbath of
Repentance” that comes between Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Two weighty questions preoccupied
me that day in 1964. One:
What did it mean that God
called lews and the world to
“repent” or “return" because all
of us had “stumbled in sin?”
The prophet Hosea, whose
words I chanted that morning,
insisted in God’s name that
God cared about how we
treated one another, and that
we could all do better. He
promised that God would help
us do better if we turned to the task. I
marveled at this promise. It was and
remains a great mystery to me.
The other big question on my mind
that September day in Philadelphia was
whether the Phillies under manager
Gene Mauch could hold on to their posi-
tion atop the National League and win
the pennant for the first time in my life.
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victory as a near-certainty. The Phillies
were six games ahead. Things looked
really promising. The pessimists warned
that the team would blow it. It turned out
that they were right. The Phillies lost 13
of the next 20 games. This too was a mys-
tery to me. Was it bad pitching, bad
managing, bad luck? Maybe it was fate.
I bring up the connection between
Rosh Hashanah and the Phillies because
it gets to the heart of what the Jewish hol-
idays mean to me each fall. In a word: It s
not fate. How things go is largely up to us,
even if we do not control the circum-
stances of our lives. The New Year is a
time at once joyful and solemn for Jews
because it marks a new begin-
ning for each of us.
It carries the assurance that
we all do get a second chance,
and urges us to seize hold of it.
The world too can be better
than it is — a hope desperately
needed this year. We have wit-
nessed so much suffering, in the
Middle East and elsewhere. So
little peace for Israel or Iraq,
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tice for my bar mitzvah, Hosea’s promise
that we can change this.“The person who
is wise will consider these words. The
person who is prudent will take note of
them. For the paths of the Lord are
smooth. The righteous can walk on them."
Hosea urged lews over 2,500 years ago
to “blow a shofar in Zion" so as to call the
people to turn and return. Jews still blow
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exactly the same reason. We need to hear
loud and clear,again and again, the mes-
sage to which it summons us.
Many interpretations have been given
to the notes struck by the horn, but the
that means most to me is this. The sh
first sound, tekiah, is a wake-up call
calls us to attention. Look around, it says
Things are not OK. Your work is needed to
set them — and yourself — right.
The second sound made by the shofar is
called shvanm, or “breaks” The world is
broken. The horn imitates its cries, preventing
us from stopping up our ears or our heart
The third sound, teruah, a series of
short blasts one after another, gives us
marching orders. Change requires small
steps that each of us has to take, modesdy
but with determination. Overreaching
will not work. The shofar-blowing ends
with a return to the first notes, longer this
time: a tekiah gedolah, or great tekiah. It
lets us know what victory sounds like. We
can change our ways. So can the world.
Honesty compels each of us to con-
cede that we’ve tried before to turn things
around and haven’t managed it. Experi-
ences of failure haunt all of us, not just
fans of the 1964 Phillies. That’s why we
need Rosh Hashanah each year to remind
us that this beginning can be different.
May we all heed the shofar’s call this
year, and prove that the world, which so
needs fixing right now, can be made
better — and that we can make it so.
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the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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