Offline for a Few Days — L’Shana Tovah, Y’All

Tonight marks the start of the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah (literally, head of the year).¹

I’ll be off line for the next few days, thinking about all the stuff I messed up in the past year and trying not to think too much of the half-dozen seminars I’m leading/teaching in the next month, the article I just promised I’d write for a national magazine, a new book, and so on.

For those celebrating, I wish you a sweet, happy, and healthy new year. May you be inscribed in the book of life for the coming year — 5771, but who’s counting.

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¹In Judaism, days begin at sundown, which wreaks havoc with attempts to map Jewish holidays to the secular calendar. If your calendar has Rosh HaShanah on it, it probably lists it tomorrow, but it really starts this evening. I’m glad to note Outlook finally has this right, after a lot of discussion about ten years ago, as it notes — if you load the Jewish Religious Holidays calendar — that tonight is Erev (the evening of) Rosh HaShanah, pronounced ROHSH hah-shah-NAH.