TIME OF RETURN

Now that Gadhafi is gone, Daniel Gerbi, an exiled Libyan Jew, wants to fulfill a lifelong dream by restoring Tripoli’s main synagogue; crying, he broke down a concrete wall blocking the entrance and surveyed the damage.

After Moshiach ben Dovid comes to the earth from the heavens, is prophesied, All the places where the Jewish People prayed will be miraculously transported to the Land of Israel. Israel will be free from politics and religion, instead the land will be filled with prayer.

The Talmud-Book of Law says, After the destruction of the Temple 2000 years ago, that prayer was most important. The commandment of prayer is to ask God for our needs at the moment of necessity; one need not be in a special building or belong to some religion.

God is available to all the world, all peoples, everywhere, all the time – when we need God, we only have to ask. Now in the Jewish calendar is known as, Eser Yemay Tshava/Ten Days of Return between Rosh Hashana, the New Year, and Yom HaKiporim, Day of Repentance.

How does one return to God? The first step is recognition that God is omnipotent and omnipresent – the meaning of God is One; therefore available always. As we return to our roots, so it is we return to the Creator of Heaven and Earth, sealing the New Year.