Prepent: 40 daily reminders to change for good and go into a new year, better. read more/subscribe 34 of 40 Sep 29/Elul 4 There is this mystical prayer that entered the synagogue liturgy for Yom Kippur about a 100 years ago, recited just before Kol Nidrei, and only by men. It’s called Tefillah Zaka – the Pure […]
g 33 of 40: Sep 28/Tishrei 3 Prepent: 40 daily reminders to change for good and go into a new year, better. read more/subscribe Stop Starving My Soul: What I learned from Orange is the New Black about Repenting.#prepent5775 One late night last week, amidst the prep and overload for these holy high days I took […]
Prepent: 40 daily reminders to change for good and go into a new year, better. read more/subscribe 32 of 40 Sep 27/Tishrei 2 New Year’s resolutions sail in on the tides of good intentions but sometimes when those begin to ebb into our default comfort zones of familiar patterns and behaviors we sometimes crash against […]
Day 31 31 of 40: Sep 26/Tishrei 1 Prepent: 40 daily reminders to change for good and go into a new year, better. read more/subscribe How to make the sabbath the day of rest and restoration needed so? How to mark this first sabbath of the year? I’m adding a new custom today, […]
30 of 40: Sep 25/Elul 30 Today: The first day of the new year is actually the last day of this past year. Jewish logic. Today is the official day of shedding the past. Today begins the tradition of Tashlich that lasts through the next two weeks – it’s Hebrew for ‘throw […]
