Timeless Torah

Rosh Hashana does not find the Jew unprepared. Besides the customary blowing of the Shofar in the final month of the Jewish year, reminders come in the form of New Year Cards, and the High Holiday tickets one must acquire. If all this makes you feel Rosh Hashana has become just a bit commercialized as so many other non-Jewish holidays have - we've got the antidote.
To be exact, we've got your ticket. In this very issue of Timeless Torah, we are printing complimentary High Holiday tickets. Please do not confuse these special passes with the regular synagogue tickets. Ours offer you benefits you've never imagined.
While your regular ticket entitles you to a seat for a few hours, ours lasts forever and carries no expiration date. Other tickets may be accepted at just one specific synagogue, ours however goes more places than Visa, MasterCard and Discover cards combined. That is why you shouldn't give this ticket away to the usher, but keep holding onto it.
You see, this ticket reminds us that we don't just belong to a particular congregation, filling an empty seat. Instead, this pass reminds us that every Jew has a reserved place in the National Congregation of Israel. For Rosh Hashana and Judaism is the inheritance of all Jews, paid up or not. This Universal Synagogue has no halls or walls, dues or pews, doors or ushers, limits or bounds. And we, the members, automatically belong from the moment we are born.
So this High Holiday, whether you see me or not, I stand united with you in this time of divisiveness that's important to remember. If others wish to fight, let it be the Serbs against the Croatians, the Kurds vs. the Iraqis; but may it never be Jew against Jew.