A thought about the need to seek forgiveness from those you’ve wronged during this week before Yom Kippur: . . .
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Contributor(s): Josh Rosenberg
Categories:  Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Yamim Nora'im, Self-Reflection, Separation | Tags:  seliḥot, Elul Zman, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., self-forgiveness, Due deferrence, Between people, beyn adam l'adam, tokheḥa
Contributor(s): Danny Yoel Cohen
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Yamim Nora'im, Yom Kippur, Self-Reflection | Tags: repentance, integrity 
Vidui means acknowledgment. It is not about self-flagellation or blame, but about honesty, coming into contact with our lives, our patterns and experiences, and ultimately about teshuva and learning. In contacting the pain and suffering which our modes of being have given rise to, our regret can help us to willfully divest ourselves of them and awaken the yearning for those modes of being which are life-affirming, supportive of wholeness, connection, integrity, and flourishing. With each one we tap on our heart, touching the pain and closed-heartedness we have caused, and simultaneously knocking on the door that it may open again. . . . Contributor(s): David Wolkin
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yamim Nora'im, Yom Kippur, Self-Reflection, Needing Translation | Tags: North America, journaling, writing, teshuva, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., Ḥeshbon HaNefesh, self-reflection 
David Wolkin writes, “I’ve been pushing this writing exercise for a while now, but I taught a class with it in my home on Sunday and it proved to be powerful and connecting for all of us in the room. If you’re reflecting/repenting this season, you might benefit from this.” . . . 
As powerful a practice as a standing meditation may be, reciting the familiar words of the Amidah with intention can prove to be a major challenge. The words may become rote, and the davvener may wonder if the ancient formulas are even meaningful to them. In this adaptation of the Amidah, Oren Steinitz treats each B’rakhah as a prompt to remind ourselves what we are praying for and shares his own thoughts as an example. Rabbi Steinitz originally wrote the “Memory Amidah” in 2013, during the Davennen Leadership Training Institute cohort 7, and revised it for sharing here through the Open Siddur Project in 2016. . . . Contributor(s): Gabbai Seth Fishman and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Categories: Self-Reflection | Tags: free will, bitul neshama, reception, consolation 
The one who prays to Hashem Yitbarakh should hold the belief that, from the start, there was a cause brought about by the everlasting One, and that S/He is the source of all completions, and S/He created all the worlds at the time when it arose in Hir will. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Categories: Rosh haShana for Domesticated Animals (behemot), Halakhah, Environment, Feasting, Self-Reflection | Tags: blessings, eco-conscious, brakhot, ecoḥasid 
The Talmud (Brakhot 35a-b) teaches that eating food without saying a brakhah (a blessing) beforehand is like stealing. A lot of people know that teaching, and it’s pretty deep. But here’s an even deeper part: the Talmud doesn’t call it “stealing”, but מעילה ׁ(“me’ilah“), which means taking from sacred property that belongs to the Temple. So that means that everything in the world is sacred and this Creation is like a HOLY TEMPLE. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation)
Categories: Self-Reflection | Tags: North America, reflective practice, journaling, writing, petiḥah, teḥinot, 21st century C.E., Petiḥot, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English
May my thoughts seek truth and integrity, the humility that is commensurate with my ignorance, the compassion that arises from the depths of awareness, as depths speak to depths… . . . Contributor(s): Eden Pearlstein
Categories: Self-Reflection | Tags: hip hop, sheydim, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish animism ‘Life Sentence’ is a poetic exploration of solitary authorship — interpreting the old-world literary tradition and archetypes for the ‘ADD’ generation. This is a boundary and genre-crossing work that exists at the intersection of Radical Jewish, Indy and Hip-Hop culture. . . . |
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