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But that day is never called Rosh Hashana in the Torah. It&#8217;s called a <em>Yom Tru&#8217;ah<\/em>, literally, a day of crying out, or, <em>Zichron Tru&#8217;ah<\/em>, a remembrance of crying out. What cries do we remember? Strangely, the first cry that the Torah reading of the day guides us to remember is none other than the cry of Ishmael in chapter 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ishmael who mocked Isaac.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ishmael who was expelled from his home upon Sarah&#8217;s insistence, and with God&#8217;s approval.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ishmael against whom, in the midrashic imagination, the angels rise up, reminding God of what his descendants will do to the Jewish people. Hagar herself finds Ishmael &#8216;s cries too much to bear, and she casts him away. Despite all this, God insists on listening to Ishmael &#8220;where he is&#8221; (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">b<\/span><\/i><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a&#8217;asher hu sham<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), in all his present pain, in all his current innocence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I wish to remind God of the ability to listen to the cry of each person <em>ba&#8217;asher hu sham <\/em>on Rosh Hashana, then I must be willing to challenge myself with this responsibility as well. When my child, my spouse, my loved one, is in pain, am I present for them, or do I feel compelled to cast them away as Hagar did, unable to empathize, unable to be with them in their suffering? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when I am present, am I capable of listening to their cry based on where they are now, or do I impose some vision of where I think they should be, or my fears of where they will go? And if I can do this for a loved one, as Hagar could not, can I do it even for a person I reject, for an &#8220;enemy&#8221;, as God did? 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