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August 27, 2006
Ellul 3: Shevet achim gam yachad
Teshuva contemplations every day until Yom Kippur here. You can also find the link on the sidebar under "Yamim Noraim." Rabbi Amy Scheinerman's guide to teshuvah focuses this week on Responsibility.
I am reposting some Ellul musings from last year, which I think deserve a second look. This one is accompanied by
a version of "Hinei Ma Tov" from the CD "With Every Breath."
Traditionally, the destruction of the Second Temple was caused by senseless hatred within the Jewish community, which we note on the anniversary of that calamity. Unfortunately, Jews still bicker and pick at each other and we have not learned much from this midrash.
Yehoshua Karsh has a program for mitigating this flaw in the community's character, which is especially appropriate for the season of repentance and return, and the theme of taking responsibility:
A few years ago a group of Jews in Chicago got together to heal rifts and build bridges amongst the Jewish Community. They formed an organization they called “The One Project.” . . . For some it was to make up with a friend, for another to go out to lunch with someone who belonged to an organization whose platform they despised. There were some who called family and said they were sorry, there were some who started the steps to working out political problems within the synagogue. There were Orthodox people who spoke with Reform, Conservative, Reconstrunctionist, Renewel, Gay, and Unaffilliated Jews, and all of the above with each other.In the spirit of the above I have agreed to take a step. A small but realizable step and I'm asking you to do the same. Heal a rift or build a bridge within the Jewish people and then pass it on. Ask one other person to do the same.
Judith | 08/27/06 at 11:40 PM | Categories: - Yamim Noraim
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Traditionally, the destruction of the Second Temple was caused by senseless hatred within the Jewish community...
Some people don't believe me when I tell them Life of Brian is a documentary.
Joseph Hertzlinger | August 30, 2006 02:48 PM
