Each blessing is a challenge to believe that we can master our fate, forge our own path, and build worlds. When the heart refuses to believe that blessings are meant to empower us to master our fate, the blessing bounces back. Each blessing must echo in our hearts. They can empower us only if we respond to the challenge of the blessing, to master our fate to rebuild our world into a place of peace, good, and infinite blessing. As Churchill said, “As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, salvation will not be denied us.”
I exit the High Holidays, just as Noah exited the Ark, into a new world with fresh opportunities. I exit as Noah, and reenter as did Abraham. I choose to take the blessings of this new year as a challenge to forge a new, better, more exciting path.
Shabbat Shalom.