{"id":82965,"date":"2024-09-06T04:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=82965"},"modified":"2024-09-06T04:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:02:06","slug":"letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY RABBI JOSEPH H. PROUSER<\/p>\n

Dear Friends:<\/p>\n

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This practice evolved over time into the exchanging of commercially produced Rosh Hashanah greeting cards.  Every Elul, I design and print hundreds of such cards to be shared with friends and family, colleagues and congregants.  For many years, I would save the numerous Rosh Hashanah cards I receive, and decorate my family Succah with them. With the advent of email and social media, alas, the number of such incoming greeting cards (as, too, other forms of written, personal correspondence) has declined precipitously. (I still find creative ways of beautifying the Prouser family Succah!).<\/p>\n

This Elul, consider a return to the practice of written blessings. As children\u2019s author Susan Lendroth observed: \u201cTo write is human; to receive a letter: Divine!<\/p>\n

So, too, poet John Donne: \u201cMore than kisses, letters mingle souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rabbi Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey and the editor of \u201cMasorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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