Shanah means year but also means to change. Chodesh means month but also means to make new. Tishrei is the time for us to change ourselves renew ourselves.
But change is so hard. Sometimes we get to a place where we feel there’s nothing left. Sometimes that’s “real” like after a house burns down. But sometimes it’s less or not readily apparent everything can look and be fine on the physical surface and to the rest of the world but really we’ve got nothing left. We feel empty and holding on by that proverbial thread. We may even feel that even the thread is gone.
Shlomo HaMelech at one point was an immensely rich king but at another point Shlomo lost everything but his staff. That’s all he had left. But we can’t minimize the importance of that staff. He didn’t have nothing; he had a staff. There’s a world of a difference between nothing and a staff.
A stick can pull someone out of quicksand.
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