The High Holidays are almost here! Our season of repentance and renewal is around the corner. How are you preparing? Lucky for us, the Jewish calendar has a built in month of soul preparation, the month of Elul. It is a time for Chesbon Hanefesh, an “accounting of the soul,”  so that we’ve begun to do the hard work of t’shuvah – of returning to who we’re meant to be – well before Rosh Hashanah rolls around and asks us to do just that.

Soul Searching is a reflective practice for the month of Elul (September 4-October 2). Each day you’ll receive an email with a relevant Jewish text and a prompt asking you to reflect on your relationship with a different middah, a different attribute. You’re welcome to engage with these prompts as you please. Keep a journal, have this be a thought exercise, respond creatively through art - whatever medium calls to you. These reflections are for you and you alone, but if you ever feel inspired to share what you’ve written or created, we would love to see it.