Lit: Returning/Turning
The process of repentance through which one “returns” to oneself and to God. The season of t’shuva begins at the start of the month of Elul and culuminates forty days later on Yom Kippur.
In this immersion, we will reflect and expand on our personal experiences of identity, using writing exercises and in-depth discussions to think about, challenge, discover, explore, and experiment with different ways to identify ourselves, to consider how those ways connect us to and separate us from others, and how they represent and misrepresent aspects of who we are.