Every Rosh Hashanah, we're told the same thing: it's a day of reflection, introspection, self-evaluation. But open the siddur, and none of that is actually there. The liturgy centers on one theme: coronating God as King over the world He created. So why does this day stir up so much inner turmoil?


In this episode, we trace that question back three thousand years, to King David, sitting under the same stars, asking the same thing: why would an infinite, all-powerful God bother creating me, let alone crown me? David never answers directly. But the rabbis of the midrash noticed something buried in his words in Tehillim 8, an answer, I think, that we all need to hear this Rosh Hashanah.


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