Parashat Bereishit
So as we all know, the shmini atzeret chag, Matan Torah, was the sign to restart the reading of the bible. From this week onwards, we will read in shul and outside of it, the weekly parasha.
The first parasha of the year is Bershit. It is the very beginning of everything: God is creating the world, the sky and sea, the trees and animals, and of course the human being.
There are few interesting things to discuss when reading the parasha, but I want to relate especially to the start as well as well as to the fact that each year we read it again (ie. a circle).
We all in HD are facing the beginning of a new year, which is a new start. We all ask ourselves: is it just the same as the year before? Or is every year the very first start of something new?
I want to believe its both: we are part of the tradition of the past of all mighty HDUK, but we are again and again trying to get things better, to improve and change if needed.
This year movement worker tzevet have chosen to see us all as “the movements that moves”. This is to say we are always on the move; always pushing forward; always learning and adapting if needed.
So to go back to the very first creation: is it a fresh new different start?
I want to believe that it is new and fresh based on the knowledge we all have from the past. But we all must give another chance to ourselves and to others: a chance to engage better with HD ideology; a chance to re-create projects; a chance to make Hagshama real.
It is not a secret that this year didn’t start so well. The long ago planned special bog-sem here in the UK wasn’t that great, as well as the cultural Jewish chagim. So shall we just stop and close the movement?
I say no. I say those are all challenges for us, and we all need to start again and again from the very beginning, till we will reach our goals - or at least some of them. We shall hopefully continue debating about our pillars and ideology, as long we all agree we have shared vision and common grounds.
This year’s tzevet is bringing I think a great mixture of experience and new ideas. The main new ideas relate to having bogrim and madrichim taking more responsibility over the movement as well as giving new structure to let things happen here leading to hagshama in Israel.
The new hadracha systems, the new pre-shnat process, the new roadshaw, the new kaveret idea – all of them are brand new creations. We all I think must give it a chance.
Shabbat shalom
yahal
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