So on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, there we are, ba’agudat achat, pressed together in a large room, a single spiritual unit, helping each other to acknowledge our actual condition, and reciting this ancient service given to us by the Divine Physician as a medicine for that condition, and that condition is this: This is real. This is very real. This is absolutely inescapable. And we are utterly unprepared. And we have nothing to offer but each other and our broken hearts.
