The stones of the Western Wall look forbidding and dry. But deep inside their crevices, hidden moisture supports life. Is it rainwater and dew that seeped into porous rock? Or have the ancient stones absorbed all the tears men and women have shed praying here, over centuries?
As this caper bush, strongly rooted inside the dry, dusty stone, survives, flowers, and brings forth fruit in a place no one would think of sowing, so do the Jews. I wish, for all Jews in this dry time, that we be blessed yet again with flower and fruit – enlightenment and fullfillment – in this New Year and all the peaceful years to follow.
G’mar Chatima Tova.