Changing Day by Day
The rhythm of the Jewish calendar allows us to sense a deeper level of experience beyond the seasonal changes. As we leave the month of Av, which required us to face our national tragedies and mourn for what we lost, we can get ready to embrace a more uplifting period. In Elul, we turn from a period of mourning to a personal accounting for change. We are given the opportunity to remake ourselves. Elul is a time expressly for soulful thinking about our true selves and who we w