8. Rosh Hashanah highlights:
*Faith in God; *Optimism in the face of daily adversity; *The first human-being, Adam, was created on the 6th day of the Creation; *The cycle of nature – seed planting season and the equality of day/night; *The opening of the Ark of Noah following the Flood; *The almost-sacrifice of Isaac and God’s Covenant with the Jewish people; *The three Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were conceived/born during the month of Tishrei, which is called “the month of the mighty leaders”; *The release of Joseph from Egyptian jail; *The receipt of the Ten Commandment and the Torah; *Deliverance from spiritual and physical slavery; *The Prophet Samuel (who inspired the early Pilgrims and the US Founding Fathers – especially Thomas Paine – was conceived in Tishrei; *The reconstruction of the Second Temple and destruction of both Temples; *The ingathering of the Jews to the Land of Israel; *The first of the Ten Days of personal, annual self-examination/atonement.
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