Today is the first day of the Hebrew month of Elul. If you've been following this blog for a while, you've seen quite a few versions of this post - the tentative first step, the beginning of the process. Today, for the first time this year, we heard the shofar blowing at morning minyan. Every … Continue reading #BlogElul 1 – Prepare
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#BlogElul is Coming!
So things have been a little quiet around here, what with my coaching website launching and all kinds of busy stuff happening. But time moves on inexorably, and it is almost time for #BlogElul again. This is a yearly recurring event when I fill the feed from this blog with daily posts on High Holy … Continue reading #BlogElul is Coming!
Surviving the Bread of Affliction
Passover has been and gone. It's always been one of my favourite holidays, largely because of the amount of baking I do with my kids. But this year it's taken a twist that made it considerably harder than usual, and I'm still recovering. I've had at least one person say to me in the past, … Continue reading Surviving the Bread of Affliction
Daleks in the Torah
I am so incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity to develop an intimate knowledge of the Torah. Who but the Torah reader gets to read every single word of the Book? Because we are using the triennial system (for which I am currently extremely grateful, although I was not a fan when it … Continue reading Daleks in the Torah
In Plowing Time and in Harvest
Hi there! You haven't seen much of me lately, because we are deeply into the High Holy Day craziness. But we are almost done - only two more days of Yom Tov to go at the end of this week, and then we are done until the spring. Hannukah is a breeze by comparison - … Continue reading In Plowing Time and in Harvest
#BlogElul 29: Return
Wow, I did such a good job last year I'm not sure I can add anything to it. It's the last #BlogElul of the season. This year I didn't do as well in terms of consistent blogging as last year, there was a lot more going on and I did miss a couple of times. … Continue reading #BlogElul 29: Return
#BlogElul 28: Give
On this penultimate day of Elul, the word that Rabbi Sommer gave us is Give. How appropriate. Last year I wrote about scarcity and abundance. This year I am thinking about helping people. In the abundance model, you give away lots and lots of content, and charge for maybe the last 10%, the premium model, … Continue reading #BlogElul 28: Give
#BlogElul 27: Intend
Intend. What an interesting word. The immediate association, at least for me, is something about the road to hell and the paving stones thereof ... I'm sure I'm not the only one. Here's what I wrote about it last year. Here we are almost at the end of Elul. This morning I ran the service … Continue reading #BlogElul 27: Intend
#BlogElul 26: Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers, apparently. I've got a few of those outside my window as I write, but I don't know that they are necessarily what I am looking for right now. It is definitely true, however, that hope is a major component of the human psyche. When we lose it altogether, we … Continue reading #BlogElul 26: Hope
#BlogElul 25: End and Begin
The end of the week was just too crazy, Friday was one of those days where I had to run around the city and do 12 million things, as well as my usual cooking and preparation for Shabbat. So my blog post for End didn't get written. Now the last Shabbat before Rosh HaShanah is … Continue reading #BlogElul 25: End and Begin