We made it through our first Days of Awe in a new location, and I am awed that membership “rose” to the occasion in so many ways. Appropriately, the congregation welcomed a Jewish student leader from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology named Noah who attended and participated in the events.
Justin raised a voice during Rosh Hashanah that was even more poignant than guest Dan Davis’s shofar calls. He said that all are needed to share in congregational volunteering. I am paraphrasing, but the image Justin invoked for me was that each of us is holding up our new sukkah. We are in a (perhaps) temporary home, but it is our community that sustains us. Justin, like Judaism’s greatest prophet Moses — or any of us mere mortals — cannot do it alone.
