For the year 5782 The Jewish holy day of Rosh ha-Shanah (the New Year), marking the creation of the world, is a time of penitence and prayer, but with plenty of sweetness added to the celebration.  While the Hebrew Bible begins with creation, a later mystical treatise called Sefer Yetsirah – of ancient or early medieval origin – focuses specifically on this subject. Heaven or Hell? Several Jewish rabbinic authorities and scholars consider the central concept of paradise to be either terrestrial…