Topic Tags: Elul

Before beginning a writing project or before repairing a scroll, I speak out my verbal intention. But then I often stay still for an extra moment.

I wish for you an Elul that is full of future-tense language.

An Elul 5783 teaching by Rabbi Janet Madden

A meditation before and new translation of Psalm 27.

“How do you steer this thing? / Which end is helm and which is the stern?”

We can become a beriah hadasha — a new version of ourselves in this New Year.

if only / I had been less / devoted to worshiping / my unworthiness / allowing this spinning planet / be my trusted partner

Series of questions for contemplation during the month of Elul

“What a time! / What a parashah!”

“The King awaits, / Tangible / As the flowers / Of the field…”