Renewal and Return 

The evenings are drawing in. Even as we sense the sharpness of an early Autumn in the morning air, we marvel at the beauty of the leaves turning on the trees, the smell of decay as the dead leaves begin to rot underfoot and the conkers fall. The imprint of the year turning is embedded deep in the memory of our cells. 

 Trustees of God’s Creation 

Today we celebrate the creation of the earth – God’s creation of the seas and the skies, the trees and the flowers, all of earth’s creatures, from the tiniest insect to the mightiest ocean whale; to ourselves, human beings formed, according to our tradition, at the 11th hour, just before sunset on the 6th Day of Creation. Today, Rosh HaShanah, we celebrate the gift and the wonder of the magnificent, beautiful and fragile web of life that is planet Earth.