15/09/2015
Broadcaster and historian Dan Snow commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and looks ahead to Sunday's Westminster Abbey service which will be broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ1 at 1145.
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Dan Snow on the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain
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Chris' Pause For Thought: Julia Neuberger
From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:
Today is the second day of Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, so I’ve brought apples and honey into the studio, to symbolise a sweet - and sometimes accidentally sticky! - new year. I don’t keep a second day myself. But some of my congregation do!
The dispute all goes back to how difficult it was to tell when the new moon had occurred, and if it had in Jerusalem if you were living in say Baghdad, before scientific instruments and scientific calculation you wouldn’t necessarily know. The calendar was done by observation, not calculation.
Since about 70 CE, despite only one day being mentioned in Torah, the 5 books of Moses, most Jews have celebrated it for two days, although there is some evidence that Rosh Hashanah was celebrated on a single day in the land of Israel as late as the thirteenth century. But many of us Reform and Liberal Jews feel we’re perfectly well able to work out the calendar these days, so we don’t need to keep two days.
Nevertheless, two of us rabbis will be visiting some of our housebound members today and taking them honey cake and honey - and blowing the shofar, the ram’s horn, for them. It’s something of an eerie, unearthly sound, and it’s a deliberate wake up call. Wake up, you sleeping people, it’s saying to us, and reflect on the past year and your plans for the coming one. Think of what you’ve done wrong over the past year. Ask forgiveness…. Make peace with those you have offended, and make peace with God… then, and only then, you can start the New Year anew.
I love the double symbolism - apples and honey and sweetness for a good year, and the ear splitting shofar sound to remind you of where things have been - and are - anything but sweet. The message is clear. Heed the shofar, so that the sweetness of the honey can be real sweetness for a new year, spiritually renewed, and at peace with God and other human beings.Â
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