PREPENT DAY TWO
ELUL 2 5775- August 17 2015
JFK
We hadn’t seen each other in over three years. No animosity, just distance and very busy lives. Occasional emails kept us in touch but not in real contact. And we used to be so close: Weekends on the beach, deep long conversations into the night, …
PREPENT DAY ONE
ELUL 1 5775- August 16 2015
Fire Island
when I was a kid I would pretend to be dead. a lot.
This usually happened in play mode with other friends and cousins, staging elaborate weddings and massacres, fairy tales and biblical battles. The usual stuff that Second Generation of …
What would you do differently if you knew you had 40 days before you die? Each new year offers us the chance of make-over, turning a page and restarting our lives, for good. Some mystical traditions imagine Yom Kippur as the day on which we rehearse our death and the 40 days leading up to […]
