D’Var Torah by Rabbi Aaron Philmus
May we all be inscribed in the book of life for a good and sweet year.
I want to begin by thanking all of you for welcoming me and my family into your kehillah kedosha your holy community and for inviting us to become part of your story.
My wife Valerie and I have three children Sophie is 16, Aeden is almost 14 and little Mae or as the bubbies call her “the bonus baby” is 4.
It is so exciting to enter this new year with all of you at a time in the shul’s history when it really feels like something big and important is being born.
And Rosh Hashanah is all about birthing –
It is the only major Jewish festival that occurs at the waxing sliver of the new moon (and not the full moon).
Rosh Hashanah is called Yom Harat Olam often translate
