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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A poem reflecting on how to release ourselves of guilt

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A ritual for letting go of guilt placed on us by outside forces

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A tashlikh ritual to affirm one’s wholeness after a divorce

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Meditations on fasting

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Take time to prepare your personal prayers for the high holidays

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Practices and meditations for making changes in life during the high holidays and all year long

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Blow a mean blues shofar! 

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Now the new year is born / beginning with the wail of shofar / like life begins with the baby’s first cry.

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A poem for Rosh Hashanah and beginning of the school year on sending one’s child to school

A child crouches on a wooden log, touching the surface of a calm lake with stones visible underwater.
The Queen is in the field. / The King is in the field. / They have come together, / To bless us
a groom and bride hold hands by a field of sunflowers

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