Kesher Talk

Simchat Torah count-up - Day 11 - Hoshana Rabbah. How are your lulav and etrog holding up? My house in Austin backs onto a creek (dry most of the year), with many willows along the banks. The last two years before I moved to NYC I cut willow branches the evening before Hoshana Rabba and brought them to shul at the crack of dawn for the willow-beating ceremony. Here in NYC I have to buy pathetic little bundles for exorbitant prices like everyone else.

In case, your moral self-examination continued past Yom Kippur, the last slips of petition and remorse can be slid through the closed, locked gate on Hoshana Rabbah. Beat them willow branches really hard.

Some thoughtprovoking predictions for 5764.

posted by Judith @ 10/17/2003 01:47:06 PM