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Article: Rosh Hashana symbolizes rebirth
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- Cleveland Jewish News
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- September 6, 2002
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Ruben, Howard H.
Cleveland Jewish News
09-06-2002
There is a Rosh Hashana "clock" in our Cleveland backyard. Not a clock with
numbers and arms, but one with branches and fruit. Our Rosh Hashana "clock"
here is an apple tree. And each day this summer while I was in Jerusalem as
a Shalom Hartman Institute Rabbinic Fellow through the support of Anshe
Chesed Fairmount Temple and the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, I
walked past the Israeli version of a Rosh Hashana "clock": the pomegranate
tree.
Watching an apple or pomegranate (literally "apple with many seeds") tree's
annual rebirth through spring and summer, one can sense Rosh Hashana
approaching as hundreds of small fuzzy nubs begin to ...