Beth El of Manhattan, Two-Testament Synagogue

Rosh Hashanah 2023 A New Wave Of Galileos


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For Yom Teruah (misnamed "Rosh Hashanah" in common use; the actual Biblical New Year is 1 Nisan (see Ex. 12:1ff) on the other side of the year.). The Day Of The Alarm/Trumpet-sound. We explore what it means to both be set free by the truth, and imprisoned by it, the way Galileo in the 1600s was both set free by his direct observation of the moons orbiting Jupiter (freeing him from the wrong world-view "everyone knew" - that everything did orbits the earth; and he was also taken captive by the truth: his life and his relationship with the world were forever changed seeing, confirming, and knowing it.

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Beth El of Manhattan, Two-Testament SynagogueBy Rabbi Bruce L. Cohen

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