September 6, 2002
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Happy Friday to you... hope you have a great day, followed by a fun and relaxing weekend. I've been enjoying hearing about what's keeping you busy and bringing you joy these days. Continue to keep in touch when you can, I miss you.
In a couple of hours it will be a new year on the Jewish calendar -- the year 5763. This is the first opportunity I've had to spend Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in Israel and I'm finding that an already magical Jerusalem has a new feeling in the air, a significant change from weeks past. The next ten days -- starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur -- are clearly the most meaningful, intense, real, and introspective in all the year. We're given an opportunity to reflect on who we have become and how we have treated the world over the past year. A chance to make amends with others and with ourselves. Although I try to do these things more often than once a year, I'm grateful for this sacred time that Judaism sets aside to take a look inside.
So as the sun gets ready to set into Shabbat and a new year, please know that I'm thinking of you and wishing you goodness and health. May the year ahead be filled with the truest peace -- here in Israel, there in the States, and in all the world -- and may you and your family have many moments of joy.
Shana Tova (A good year to you) with love,
Rachel Ann
