Rosh Hashanah –Head of the Year?
Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS
Call it New Beginnings or maybe Starting Over. How about, Another Chance or Adam and Eve’s Birthday. There are endless possibilities, so why call it Head of the Year?
And why not feet, or hands, or even belly button. Why head?!
Perhaps to get the answer it pays to use your head.
And therein lies the reason. Because it is a time to use your head to think through why we are here, our purpose, our goals….
The head also has important parts on it to make it happen. we can use our head to get a head:
Don’t be eye dLe
Don’t be nosy
Avoid hair brained schemes
Don’t be a BeArD person
Face your challenges
Sink your teeth into growth
Bridge a path to a better future
Furthermore, the head doesn’t have other parts above it to block it. It looks up and sees the world, unhindered for instance by flailing arms or a full belly.
The head can see that the world is greater than just more of us.
The head can see that we end, and others begin. Allowing us to be aware that others exist too.
If we have aches, they have aches, if we have pains, they have pains, if we have struggles they have struggles.
Our head can see this, our minds can embrace this, and our bodies can do something about this. We can reach out to help. And we can run to do for others.
Our heads can also recognize it takes something to run the show. No one’s body is running right without a coordinator at the helm.
Ergo, it, can make the jump that just as a head is needed to run the body, Gd is needed to run the universe; nothing can just happen without a conductor.
It is this realization that comes as we hear the name Rosh Hashanah – head of the year – we are being reminded that Gd is head of the year, head of the years, actually head of the whole shebang!
So, let’s head to connection to prayer to re- align ourselves with the head honcho and ask for a year that heads us all in the right direction.
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivkirosenwald@gmail.com
