In this presentation, Rabbi Matthew Ponak talks about the history of tradition and innovation which is expressed in Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. He shows how the holidays have changed drastically over the generations and empowers listeners to use their own creativity in celebrating and observing these occasions. Our ancestors were tremendously adaptive and we can be too. Rabbi Matthew also shares Kabbalistic and Hasidic teachings about renewal and alignment: understood by many mystics to be the inner essence of the High Holidays.