Topic Tags: Elul

” This annual stock-taking is a night-shift job. / Better to count up the inventory without people watching—”

Prepare for the High Holy Days with this powerful ritual.

“The flowers we didn’t pick lived longer. Release, revise, remember. Renew.”

“This list is endless, there’s no reason to stop here, but…”

“During these days I examine both errors and accomplishments…”

A complete morning service honoring the New Year of the animals.

“Never actually reaching my heavenly destinations of holiness and righteousness, but striving all the way.”

“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.”