God According to God [antikvár]

Introduction Shortly before sunrise, I stand outside my home in Jerusalem and watch the last moments of night give way to the coming of day. In those early morning hours, with the air spiced with scents from the eucalyptus trees and bushes of thyme that border our courtyard, the sky embraces the fleeting black of night. Pins of starlight mark the grandeur of space. The sun rises and begins to paint the sky blue as the shortest visible wavelengths of the incoming sunlight are scattered across the heavens. The glow of the sky signals the call for prayer. Jerusalem rests on several hills, and each hillside acts as a reflector, echoing the diverse calls for prayer out again over the city. Today marks the Hebrew month of Elul, the biblical month that precedes the biblical New Year, the holiday of Rosh HaShanah (literally, "the head of the year"). By pleasant coincidence, this year the Muslim month of Ramadan coincides with Elul. Both Elul and Ramadan have special prayers, and that makes this