A
Blessing for the Jewish New Year of 5759
To
all the Jewish People,
Righteous Gentiles and Lovers of Israel--Shalom!
It
is customary to interpret the Hebrew letters of
the new year as an acronym expressing our wishes and prayers for the
coming year. The first three letters of every year in this century
(5700--hei tav shin) are interpreted as "May it be a year
of...." The remaining letters of the date are then interpreted
either as a word in itself or as an acronym for a phrase or idiom in
Hebrew.
Blessings
for the New Year
For
the present, we shall suggest perhaps the most meaningful
interpretation of this coming year, the year fifty nine (nun
tet) of our century (other interpretations will, G-d
willing, follow in the near future). According to this interpretation,
the nun tet alludes to a juxtaposition of
the two seemingly opposite manifestations of Divine providence, nes
("miracle") and teva
("nature"). In truth, not only do these two Divine
manifestations complement one another; they are in fact intended, with
the coming of Mashiach, to "blend" together and
become one.
Beginning
with the year 5750, the nun of each year of the decade has been
interpreted (by the Rebbe) as standing for nissim
("miracles") or nifla'ot ("wonders"). This
year, which concludes the decade (the tenth year representing in
Kabbalah the malchut--"Kingdom"--of the decade), is
the year when all of the supernatural, miraculous "lights"
of the decade find their complete "rectification" by
enclothing themselves in the order of nature (thereby ensuring their
permanence for eternity).
According
to this interpretation, the year should be read as: "May this be
the year of miracles enclothed within nature" (Hayo
t'he shnat nissim melubashim b'teva).
May
this New Year be one of spiritual enlightenment and physical
prosperity, a year of true and consummate
redemption for Israel and the entire world, Amen.
Rabbi
Yitzchak Ginsburgh
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