How the Jewish New Year Relates to All People

(Before It's News)

Happy Jewish New Year! Shana Tova & the ‘Here’ and ‘Now’

by Georgi Y. Johnson 

There is a view put forth by the rabbis in the Talmud that the day of Rosh Hashanah ( Jewish New Year ) coincides with the sixth day of creation, when humanity was created. According to this view, Rosh Hashanah becomes the birthday of all peoples; the birthday of human kind, undivided between male and female, black, white, east and west. When I told this to a Bedouin in the Sinai desert on the evening of Rosh Hashanah, he grinned wildly and proclaimed: “So tonight, it is the birthday of all of us!”

A Sacred Reverberation 

It is a beautiful myth, seen from the perspective of a relative point in history – humankind looking back to its own unified origin – the first happening of creation. But what does it mean from a more metaphysical perspective?

A great uncle of our children, Rabbi Abraham Twerski, wrote that creation is not a happening of the distant past. In fact, the Rabbi (a direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, and a pioneer in Recovery centers for addiction across the US), is pointing to the non-dual position of perpetual creation. There is no past, no future, only the now.

This is not far from a perspective of modern physics:

 “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together.”  –Max Plank

Even the raw DNA of life can be seen as a language. DNA is read by ribosomes which translate the message from DNA language into the language of amino acids which sculpt a three-dimensional shape into space. These objects are more like “utterances” into three-dimensional space, rather than the hypothetical “matter” because they are three-dimensional messages coded by DNA.

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