As we enter the last Shabbat of the old year, we look ahead to the unexplored, unmapped territory of the new year, where anything – good or bad – could happen. What gives us the courage to step into the new, when so much is unknown? The ancient rabbis gave us a gift in this regard when they set aside the view of time that sees it as an arrow shot from a bow, inexorably leaving the past behind and barreling into the future. Instead, they saw time as a cycle, a spiral. As we walk along the path, we see patterns recur and familiar signposts come up again, even as we are never precisely in the same place that we were when we last passed by these markers. As we celebrate the new year in turbulent times, with such rapid and unpredictable change, let us take comfort from taking a wider view of the pattern of our lives, integrating both what has changed and what comes around again, the markers that show us the way forward. May we walk forward with courage and hope as we begin the cycle again.


"Unlike normal populations, they perceive time in reverse. From their perspective, time flows BACKWARDS, which is how they all are able to set themselves up in positions of power. To them, from eternity, they were "born" from Hell, and knowing full well that they work for Satan, which gives them power and prestige, as well as full knowledge when they perceive how they enter life. time flows in reverse. That is how they are so powerful, since they know things we do not, and are able to exploit that against us. To them, effect comes before cause, and because there was an effect, it was because they needed to have a cause