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Rosh Hashanah Appeal 2024

What a difference a day makes

What a difference a day makes, what a difference an hour can make, what a difference 20 seconds can create. There is an awful unpredictability to life, but also an awesome capacity to each moment. In one brief stroke your life can be overturned, but in one instance you can achieve what you never thought possible. This is a central idea that underpins Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Days of Awe of the Jewish calendar.

At Rosh Hashanah, Jewish wisdom reminds us that there are many things you cannot change, events that make you feel that no matter what you do the world goes on in its own way. Shakespeare put it elegantly when he said, ‘There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may”. The most haunting lines in our prayers during this season are surely: ‘‘On Rosh Hashana it is written…who shall live and who shall die, who in a good time and who by an untimely death…’’

Yet for all this Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are potentially a life transforming experience informing us that there is so much you can do to make a difference if not to the wide world, to yourself and your world. We have the power to choose life and make the life of those around us  gentler and better. Love, forgiveness, compassion and charity can reset the compass, realign the focus and direction of our shaken and trembling planet. That frightening prayer of ‘who shall live’ ends with the assurance: You can change or at least minimise a predicted decree.

The past year has been one of shock and suffering to so many across our planet. For Israel and the Jewish people that one day, October 7, changed everything. What a difference a day made to our sense of security, our assumptions about our identity, our survival and our place in the world. The people of Israel are still in deep distress, and our Jewish people are still in deep shock at the ferocious hatred of our enemies and the blatant antisemitism of so many we considered our friends. So many in our Melbourne community are hurting and those who were already in need before October 7 have taken on an extra burden of fear and insecurity.

Yet for all this this we still believe in our capacity to transform the bitter into better, to convert the acidic into the sweet, the despair into hope. And that is what empowers and drives Jewish Care. We believe in making a difference and we believe in our community. We are confident those who can will support those who cannot. As Helen Keller put it: “I am only one ,…I cannot do everything, But I can still do something.’’

To adapt the words of the song: What a difference a day can make ,24 little hours can bring the sun and flowers in place of the storm and the rain…What a difference a day can make -And the difference is you!!

Wishing you and yours a year as sweet and crispy as those apples smothered in honey ,a year of good health and happiness and one of Shalom al Yisrael Ve Haolam -peace for Israel and for all on this earth we share.

Shanah Tovah Umetukah, Rabbi Ralph