Right after the shofar is sounded in synagogues throughout the world, many of us will recite the paragraph that captures one of the central themes of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy, היום הרת עולם, hayom harat olam, “Today is the day on which the world was created.”
Many of us will be praying, hoping, wishing—if not for a new world, then at least a renewed wo…
