The Shipley
School planting and the harvesting, this is Nisan and Tish-
rei. We need both creation narratives, and we need
Nisan and Tishrei to form a complete sense of who
we are and who we can be.”
“God created the world in Tishrei. But when did
God start thinking about creating the world? That
was Nisan,” noted Rabbi Mendy Wineberg, program
director of the Chabad House Center of Kansas City.

Wineberg said that while the first man was fash-
ioned by God in Tishrei, the Jewish people became
a nation in Nisan, when God took them out of
Egypt and ultimately gave them the Torah and its
mitzvoth. “God created the world in Tishrei.

But when did God start thinking
about creating the world?”
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“God became king of the people on Rosh Hasha-
nah. God became our personal king in Nisan,”
Wineberg said.

Minnen said the main message of all the Jewish
New Years — Tishrei, Nisan, Shevat, Elul — is one
of continuity.

“You have these four opportunities to start over,
to redefine who you are now and where you want
to go,” she says. “Every day can be your New Year.”
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