One of the unique gifts that we have this year concerns the names of the year — Taf-Shin-Sameach-Zayin. The last two letters of the acronym can stand for many different things. One of the things is that this year will be the year of the Zohar.

I shared with you yesterday that I had a dream in which the Rav told me it’s about the Zohar. Every time you speak or think about the Zohar, there is always the question of how can you really express the power that is found in a set of what are books, now, in our time?That is one of the biggest barriers for us to connect to the power of the Zohar.

I was speaking with a chevre going to one of the other Centres for Rosh Hashanah and he asked me for one of the main consciousnesses we needed to have for this Rosh Hashanah. My answer was that it has to do with the name of this year. Whatever connection we think we have to the Zohar, to this amazing Light, this year should be a completely different and much more powerful connection.