Since childhood, Vicki Lewis said, she has wondered about infinity and God and what it means to be a Jew. Thursday morning, she was driving to her second Rosh Hashanah service and reflecting on the past year. Did she do all she could? She remembered getting a hungry man on the street a pizza from Domino’s.
“That was cool,” she said, reflecting that decades ago, as a teacher with children, she might not have been able to afford such an expense. “That was one of my great moments, I think.”
One thing that made an impression on her at the previous evening’s Rosh Hashanah service, which kicked off the Jewish New Year, was the rabbi’s invocation of the Shakespeare quote that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The Jewish people are here to make the world a better place, said Lewis, a past president of the congregation – and doing this is all about action. This could mean voting, she said, or donating money or doing good deeds. But there’s another dimension too.
If you go:
What: Oct. 7 memorial vigil