This week, Rabbi Woznica offers some thoughts about entering a new year.
Broken Dreams
Reflecting on the year gone by, some undoubtedly had dreams fulfilled. For others, dreams were shattered. You may have experienced both.
The great Rabbi Harold Kushner offers some advice: ” … if you have been bold enough to dream and found yourself with some dreams that came true and a lot of broken pieces of dreams that didn’t, that fell to earth and shattered, then you can look back from the mountaintop you now find yourself standing on, like Moses contemplating the tablets that would guide human behavior for a millenia, resting in the Ark alongside the broken fragments of an earlier dream. And you, like Moses, can realize how full your life has been and how richly you are blessed.”
What do we do when our dreams are shattered and our hearts broken? When the time is right, we can—and indeed, should—dream new dreams.
—Rabbi David Woznica
Tomorrow: What will Guide us in the coming year: Faith or Fear?
Below are links to two programs:
One, a dialogue with Rabbi Kushner and Rabbi Woznica, the other a talk Rabbi Kushner gave in Washington.