Day 30 9.8 DIP

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus     DIP     ‘The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.’ (Emreson)   Nobody knows why we begin the year with honey. Where does the custom of dipping apples in Honey on the first night of […]

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Day 29 9. 7 CLEAN (up your act)

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus   CLEAN (UP YOUR ACT)   When my mother was a little girl, her older sister Evelyn used to wake her up in the middle of the night and make her clean up her room: ‘What if the Queen […]

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Day 28 9. 6 FIND POETRY

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus   FIND POETRY   A poem for the 28th day of preparations, this focus-finding journey to at-one-ment, on the last day of Summer, just 2 days before the New Year begins.   It is your turn now It is […]

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Day 27 9. 5 LISTEN

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus     Last night I went to visit, break the Ramadan daily fast, study, sing and pray with Shaykha Fariha Fatima al-Jerrahiand her community at the Sufi Mosque in Tribeca http://www.nurashkijerrahi.org/main.htm.   On the Jewish calendar it was the night of […]

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Day 26 9.4 PAUSE

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus       “Modern times often cause us to go on automatic pilot, continually multitasking and busying our lives with digital stimulation, information overload, and schedules that stress our brains and overwhelm our lives. Finding time to pause amidst […]

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