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Daily Psalms and Directions of the Heart ç 71 Giving Birth Hayom harat olam: Today is the birthday of the world, the day on which the world was conceived—so we say each Rosh Hashanah. And today it is being born again—as it is every day, at every hour.With each moment, the old world disappears and a new world comes into being. Everything always happening for the first time. Why, then, is this birthday special? On Rosh Hashanah, we set out on a path of deliberate change, change that is in our own powers to effect—t’shuvah, the return to one’s truest self. As we celebrate the birthday of the world, the great creation out of which we are born, we bring attention to the ongoing creation of our lives, by which we make ourselves new each day. ...

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