The Days of Awe

In the Jewish calendar Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the New Year. The year is 5775. The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known as the Days of Awe. It is believed by Jews that on Rosh Hashanah that God opens the book of life and writes in the names of those that will live and die in the upcoming year … that God decides who will have a good and who will have a bad life, for the next year. Thus you have ten days to try to change God’s mind. During these ten days you are to be introspective and be thinking about the mistakes you have made in the last year. These are days that and try your best to right your wrongs of the past year. These ten days are for repentance, prayer and good works. These are the days to work at and fix your horizontal relationships. Let us all join our Jewish brothers and sisters in fixing our horizontal relationships and working on our past wrongs of the last year. A new year is before you whether you are Jew or Greek. No Jewish holiday is complete if not accompanied by food. Eat something sweet to remember the sweetness of life and a new year. A typical Jewish greeting is, “A good and sweet New Year!” Cut up an apple and dip it in honey and you will be very Jewish in this time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.