9/19/09 la shana tova

let the high holidays begin. i love it. yesterday the day consisted of a whirlwind of activity, a lot of which threw my schedule off. yet by and large my inner state wasn't off. every now and then i just felt this upsurge of happy energy and i burst into chanting la shana tova yerushaleyim. hubby beamed and we danced. again and again. i know the notion of reincarnation is not anywhere in torah but, hey, i have chinese in my blood so i absolutely believe i must have been an israeli in some previous life, someone who constantly wrestles with yhvh. in any case i'm definitely an israeli now. my rabbi says you don't have to be a jew in the conventional sense to be an israeli. after all multitudes left egypt, mizraiyim, the narrow land, the limited consciousness, not just descendants of jacob. my rabbi also says, there is the lower jerusalem and the higher jerusalem, the lower jerusalem is a physical location and the higher jerusalem is a state within. the state of peace. hey, i'm all for the higher jerusalem.