Hello dear friends,

Just emerging from the tunnel of the Tishrei holidays, and now starting to read the Torah from Bereshit, I thought I’d write a post about the elliptical structure of the Hebrew calendar to help sharpen our perspective on time.

The Hebrew year has two focal points: The sun and the moon.

The revealed, cognitive time is the solar time, the time of order, action, understanding, the agricultural cycle, economy, and society. It moves by the visible and measured light, “to govern the day.” It is a time ruled and measured by consciousness: what we do, when we plant, when we harvest.

The hidden, renewing, and sacred time is the lunar time, the time of inwardness, of feeling, of disappearance and return, the time in which the cyclical movement of renewal and faith is revealed. It is not only measured – it is experienced: the appointed time, the meeting with the sacred.

In other words:

The sun illuminates the outer world and the moon illuminates the inner world.

The Hebrew year unites these two dimensions: it allows a person to live in a world where the practical and the sacred, the revealed and the hidden, the day and the night, move together like two focal points within one ellipse of time.

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See you soon!