Shemini Atzeret, Rain, & Resurrection
Part of the series JTS High Holiday Webinars
With Rabbi Mychal Springer, Adjunct Professor, JTS, and Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
The High Holiday season ends with Shemini Atzeret—the Eighth Day of Assembly. According to our tradition, on Rosh Hashanah, our fate for the coming year is written; on Yom Kippur, it is sealed; and on Shemini Atzeret, it is mailed out. This year, as we approach Shemini Atzeret, the holiday carries the weight of last year’s massacre, the war it launched, and the pain of captives carried into darkness.
In this session, we explore the unique themes of the holiday and hold them in dialogue with this moment of brokenness, the weight of war, the complexities of peoplehood, and the ongoing need for healing and rebirth.
