Earth Etude for Elul 13 Uncovering the Moon: The Compass of Compassion
What “covers over” your ability to access compassion? What might it mean for compassion to be a compass for you? Growing up, I was taught...
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Rabbi Paul Plotkin
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Learn to Acknowledge Defeat
I have been a vegetable and herb gardener for the last 30 years. That means that I have had the pleasure of tasting wonderful tomatoes...
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Rabbi David Seidenberg
- 5 days ago
- 3 min
God's eyes on the Land: Why are ancestors chose a land "of hills and valleys"
In Parshat Eikev , Deut 11:10-12, the Torah compares the land of Egypt to the land of Canaan. There are two distinctions made. The first...
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Leah F. Cassorla, Ph.D.
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
Earth Etude for Elul 10 Climate and the Sh'ma
One of my amazing 7th graders said to me that the second paragraph of the Sh’ma (the V’hayu ) says, in his words, “if we follow the...
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Lisa M Miller
- 6 days ago
- 1 min
I COME HOME
walk my wild rocky woodland— indigo bunting families katydids, a woodpecker, the rushing creek timbre. God. In tones solstice gold...
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Rabbi Robin Damsky
- Sep 11
- 2 min
Earth Etude for Elul 8Dropping Our Leaves
In his book, This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, Alan Lew, of blessed memory, teaches us that the arc of the High Holy Days...
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Judith Felsen, Ph.D.
- Sep 9
- 2 min
Earth Etude for Elul 7 Love Psalm from Elohim
Dear Ones, This Elul we greet and meet in fields of anguish, barely chanting salutations trapped in unrequited prayers waiting to be...
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Rabbi Mike Moskowitz
- Sep 8
- 2 min
Repentant and Grounded: Allship in Elul
One of the reasons that we are called “Earthlings,”1 b’nei adam in Hebrew, is because our ability to return to a pristine state of...
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Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Why Is Despair So Compelling?
The Chasidic Rabbi Nachman of Braslav (1772-1810) was a lifelong sufferer of what was likely depression. When, towards the end of his...
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Rabbi Katy Allen
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Earth Etude for Elul 4Arise
Arise / לָקוּם Enough! Too long have you stood still. Arise! Draw near and walk the verdant woodland trails with Me. אָז רַב לָכֶם...
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Rabbi Janet Madden PhD
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Earth Etude for Elul 3The Tides of Teshuvah
Midrash Tehilim 65:4: “Teshuvah is like the sea which is never barred, so that whoever desires to bathe in it can do so whenever they...
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Rabbi Asher Chaim Sofman
- Sep 3
- 2 min
Earth Etude for Rosh Hodesh Elul: Turning Earthward
I sit in my backyard on a cool and beautiful August day. Cicadas and crickets buzz. It’s a workday, but if my laptop’s on, even hours I...
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Ma'yan Tikvah
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Earth Etudes for Elul: An Introduction
Elul is a time for reflection, a time for teshuvah, return to G!d and to our best selves, in preparation for the Days of Awe, the holiest...
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