High Holidays

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The High Holidays, which comprise Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, are the holiest dates on the Jewish calendar. A time to take stock of our live, seek forgiveness, and start fresh, this season invites us to reflect on what matters most to us and to return to our deepest selves.

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Even if you remembered to buy local, organic honey, there is no readiness for the work to come.
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Reflection prompts for the seven weeks between Tisha B’Av and Rosh Hashanah using the sefirot
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A poem preparing oneself for Yom Kippur

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To see what it looks like to put ourselves together again.

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Envision a shofar made of pure light

Person with long hair wearing a colorful kippah and playing a shofar.

Who will make chicken soup for the dejected?

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I smashed my father’s statues and stood alone in the fragmenting dark

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When the last note is sounded, will we forget the memory of the blast and go back to ourselves?

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