Hear Our Voice

Rabbi Morris Joseph teaches that when faced with the passing of a loved one, we often frame it as a “loss.”  But the truth, because death is, well, 100% ubiquitous… that perhaps we should seek to reframe our loss as a “lack of the gain” we were so fortunate to have had.  That because every one of us does indeed have a “sell by” date, that is fortunately left off the “package” of our own lives, the humility of the limits of our lives should inspire us to make each day matter.  Today is the 14^th day of Elul, meaning we have yet about 15 more days to seek to make Rosh Hashanah matter.  You and I are only here for a bit, a blip, a nanosecond in comparison to the 14 billion years since God declared, “Let there be light.”  But that bit and blip and nanosecond is enough to create new worlds every day of our lives with the words we speak, with the tones we use, with the resentments we discard, and the generosity we channel.  Let your losses become your gains, for the alternative is to just to remain mired in yesterday.