Topic Tags: Elul

“When we expect sweetness to be given / to us from above instead of doing the work  / ourselves to make our lives sweeter?”

“In the quiet days after Tisha B’Av,  the shofar is still wrapped in / silence /waiting to be retrieved…”

“Elul is a bridge crossed in the fullness of summer, a path we begin to clear toward our imagined future.”

A private, personal S’lichot ritual

“Life is a precious jewel…”

“We arrive at Sinai, but we don’t get to stay…”

“What if we read our Torah with open eyes and see that its truths are written on the skins of our fellow creatures…”

“Return is always possible.”

“We peer from the edge, these days of fear…”

Rabbi Yael Levy shares a teaching for the month of self-reflection