Rosh Hashana – What We Do With What Happens
Henry Siddons Mowbray [USA; 1858–1928), Destiny (1896) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The language of Unetaneh Tokef, [“Who will live and who will die?”] with its sheep passing by, one by one, cannot but chillingly, in our day and age, recall scenes from the Holocaust. But in this prayer, nothing is fated, and our fortunes are not doomed because of our bloo…
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