{"id":1264,"date":"2014-09-24T07:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2016-12-16T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:45:11","slug":"into-the-depths-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/into-the-depths-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Depths of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Feast-of-Trumpets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Feast-of-Trumpets-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Feast of Trumpets\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Feast-of-Trumpets-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Feast-of-Trumpets.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the setting sun this evening comes, in the Jewish tradition, a new day&#8230; and, with this particular setting sun, a new year. It is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. &#8220;Shanah Tovah&#8221; is the most common greeting you&#8217;ll hear, a wish for a good year. This is the beginning of\u00a0a period of reflection and repentance that concludes with the solemn Yom Kippur, ten days later.<\/p>\n<p>Rosh Hashanah begins with the sounding of the the shofar, a hollowed ram&#8217;s horn, and for some, the day is known as the Feast of Trumpets. This (as an aside) always reminds me of my mom and dad&#8217;s old neighbor, Tony, who used to say in Italian, &#8220;Quando i suoni di tromba&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0meaning, When the trumpet sounds, well&#8230; then that&#8217;s it, your time is up. So you&#8217;d better make things right with God and make things right with the people you love, and maybe even the people you don&#8217;t quite care for.<\/p>\n<p>Micah 7:19 reads, &#8220;You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea,&#8221; and you may find people at the water&#8217;s edge during Rosh Hashanah, casting bread into the sea, each bit of bread carrying some of those sins. And with dinner tonight: a round loaf of challah, round to symbolize the circle of the year (as one year ends, another year begins), and, of course, apples dipped in honey. This, for a sweet year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Feast of Trumpets by Aleksander Gierymski. Oil on canvas, 1884, [Public domain] via WikiMedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the setting sun this evening comes, in the Jewish tradition, a new day&#8230; and, with this particular setting sun, a new year. It is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. &#8220;Shanah Tovah&#8221; is the most common greeting you&#8217;ll hear, a wish for a good year. This is the beginning of\u00a0a period of reflection and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}