{"id":55854,"date":"2023-09-15T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T18:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=55854"},"modified":"2023-09-15T18:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T18:43:19","slug":"holiday-happy-rosh-hashanah-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-rosh-hashanah-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAY: HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH 2023<\/h1>\n

It seems like the Jewish holidays are coming quickly this year. I\u2019m less prepared for them than I usually am.<\/p>\n

\"241359312_10160521941021323_4713716105653159859_n\"<\/a>It does seem that Rosh Hashanah\u2014Jewish New Year\u2014which is a happy<\/em> occasion, should come after<\/em> Yom Kippur, which is the highest holy day–the day of atonement. I feel that it should be sadness first, to get it over with, followed by happiness, not the other way around. I\u2019ve never understood that. The shameful stereotype about my people is that we like to suffer, (which isn’t true at all,) but the order of the high holidays is just nutty.<\/p>\n

I could not figure out something new and different to say about the occasion, after writing it for most of the fourteen years of INAM<\/em>\u2019s existence, and then all of a sudden, something came to me. And it\u2019s either a head-scratcher or hypocritical. What people of my ethnic persuasion are\u00a0supposed<\/em>\u00a0to do on Rosh is apologize to a person for anything they may have done or said to hurt the other in the past year. But what I\u2019ve found is that if they even say it at all<\/em>, it\u2019s more often than not just cursory\u2014they don\u2019t mean it. It\u2019s usually a hollow, insincere apology.<\/p>\n

\"14494851_10154587958081323_6027924737992885480_n\"<\/a>And let me tell you, I have many friends, Jewish or otherwise inclined, who have\u00a0never<\/em>\u00a0hurt me, or have\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0apologized right away if they have. As\u00a0I<\/em>\u00a0have when the shoe\u2019s been on the other foot. But it’s the ones who have 100% hurt my feelings, (like yelling at me to \u201cshut up,\u201d which is never acceptable from a friend, or assuring me that they\u2019ve replaced their very defective windshield wipers when they had not<\/em>, and have me stuck far away in their car in a downpour!, and other instances too painful to mention here,) who have never said boo. They\u2019d rather let the many-years-long friendship go than apologize. And they call themselves observant when it comes to religion. Oh well.<\/p>\n

\"41388006_1072819939551116_4500083595343298560_n\"<\/a>I didn\u2019t plan to get into any<\/em> of that today, but perhaps there\u2019s a lesson here. And that is: if you\u2019re Jewish, please really<\/em> apologize, always<\/em>, but especially at this time of year, to those you\u2019ve hurt in any way. It\u2019s supposed to be over the previous twelve months, but I suggest doing it for any infractions ever<\/em>. But only if it\u2019s absolutely sincere.<\/p>\n

And then perhaps your atoning on Yom Kippur next week will be a bit easier for you. (Hey\u2014perhaps that explains the order of our two big holidays that I asked about at the beginning of this article! Wow\u2014I solved that perennial question in just a few paragraphs!)<\/p>\n

So, to all my Jewish readers, (and anyone who celebrates with us,) no matter how you do these New Year holidays, I wish you a lovely, peaceful, healthy,\u00a0safe, and Happy Rosh Hashanah.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH 2023 It seems like the Jewish holidays are coming quickly this year. I\u2019m less prepared for them than I usually am. It does seem that Rosh Hashanah\u2014Jewish New Year\u2014which is a happy occasion, should come after Yom Kippur, which is the highest holy day–the day of atonement. I feel that it should<\/p>\n

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