Elul Reflections: Habit
We are creatures of habit. “Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits,” writes Charles Duhigg […]
Elul Reflections: Tuff Courage
Lives were saved when school clerk Antoinette Tuff talked down a young man who showed up at McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Georgia armed with an AK-47 last Tuesday. Learn about […]
Elul Reflections: The Content of Our Character
On Friday, Rabbi Bill Kuhn taught in his Shabbat d’var Torah: On Wed., Aug. 28, our nation will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March On Washington for civil […]
Elul Reflections: Awaken
The great shofar is sounded, and the still, small voice is heard. Uv’shofar gadol yitaka, v’kol d’mamah dakah yishama. What will rattle in you this year upon hearing the shofar […]
Elul Reflections: What Do I Want?
Our lives are full of “should”s. I should go to the grocery store. I should make that appointment I’ve been avoiding. I should ignore the beautiful weather outside and finish […]
Elul Reflections: I Am Safe
New words for old ideas as we prepare for the new year… Here is a take on Psalm 27, the Psalm read daily in the month of Elul. With the […]
Elul Reflections: Awake
The shofar calls to us: Awake, you slumberers, from your slumber, and rouse yourselves from your deep sleep. Search your deeds and turn in repentance. Remember your Creator, you who […]
Elul Reflections: Setting Aside a Portion
Our CSA shares are nourishing both the bodies and the souls of our congregation! Each week, congregants pick up a box of organic vegetables to bring home and one share […]
Elul Reflections: Find Your Beat
We can approach this season, this work of Cheshbon HaNefesh, the accounting of our souls, with a strategy. Find something to repeat. What is the power of repetition? Whether it […]
Elul Reflections: Taking Stock of What Hurts–and Why
Amichai Lau-Lavie writes: The toothache started about two days ago, gentle at first. By Saturday night, though, it had upgraded from nagging ache to actual pain. With it came the […]