Choosing Your Word for the New Year with Matt Derrenbacher

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Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

While many people are thinking about their New Year’s Resolutions, others are taking a different approach to the new year and setting an intention. To do that, choosing one word to focus on throughout the year is a helpful and effective practice, and this week’s guest is here to tell us how to do it and how it works. Matt Derrenbacher is a fifth-year rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and has served as a chaplain candidate for the U.S. Air Force and a Jewish educator. He explains how using a single word can help us set an intention for the year and help us stay on track in the months to come. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why choosing one word to focus on throughout the coming year can help guide your actions. Why many people find it more effective than setting a resolution. How to decide what your word should be—and how to remind yourself of it regularly.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 397 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.3	It's the very last episode of 2022, and that means it's a great time to talk about setting our intention for the new year.
0:15.3	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm sitting down with Matt Daronbocker,
0:19.4	a fifth-year rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College,
0:22.9	Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, and a chaplain candidate for the U.S. Air Force.
0:28.5	Matt is here today to talk about how we can set an intention, not a resolution for our new year,
0:34.1	and how choosing one word to guide us through the year can serve as a touch
0:38.4	point in the months to come. Let's have a listen. Matt, welcome to live happy now. Hey, thanks for
0:45.4	having me. It is a pleasure. You know, I had an idea that I wanted to do something about
0:51.3	choosing a word of the year because that's a practice I've had for several years now and it's been very effective. And so I turned to your wife, who is a frequent
0:59.8	flyer on Live Happy Now, and she's our resident pet expert, Brittany Darren Bacher. And she said,
1:06.0	unbeknownst to me, that this is something that you are very familiar with. I didn't know that choosing a word
1:12.6	of the year, setting that intention, that that's actually a practice within the Jewish faith.
1:17.6	Yeah, absolutely. So just a little bit of context. So there's also a Jewish New Year. There's a few Jewish New Year, but the big one is Russia Shana, which is the start of the year.
1:30.5	And so Judaism is based on a lunar calendar, which means our dates kind of move around in the secular calendar because that one's based on the sun.
1:39.8	And so we just had the high holidays end of September, early October this year.
1:45.8	So during that process, when we have the New Year and then Yom Kippur, which is like the
1:51.1	Day of Atonement, there's one word that is really central to the experience of the new year,
1:58.9	and that is the Hebrew word to Shuvah. It's generally translated
2:03.2	as repentance, but that's a terrible translation. Terrible translation. Because it comes from the
2:10.2	word Shuv, which is to return. And so the word that I've chosen for the past few years
2:17.3	on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year,
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