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nieciedo
9/13/2005 4:25 PM
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What is everyone doing in preparation for the High Holidays?
Practically, I need to learn the HH trope and an one or two new haftarah teamim: I've been asked to leyn the second aliyah on morning of the first day of RH and half of the book of Jonah on YK afternoon. Yes, I'm a little bit stressed as I see the time approaching too quickly on the calendar.
For Elul work, I did two things. I printed out a list of the mitzvot, crossing out the ones that can't been done today, and have been trying to focus on them, see which ones I've done, which I can do better, and which I need to atone for.
I've also got in mind drawing a chart of the different relationships in my life to examine how my actions in the past year have affected each person or group on the chart.
What are you working on?
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agnon1
9/14/2005 2:18 PM
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My usual.
I'm making a list of areas of my spiritual life that need improving (its a big list.)
I'm vowing not to get so worked up over divisions between Jewish streams, and the fact that my patrilineal Jewish son will not be accepted by certain of them. (Heck, I'll be fortunate if he wants to be any type of Jew as an adult.)
I continue to struggle with learning Hebrew, and hope that I am on the cusp of a breakthrough to reading fluency.
I want to be more attentive to the the delicate silence that Hashem must be hiding in, because in my frequent dark nights of my soul I keep waiting for an epiphany and I haven't had one.
I want to pray or lay tefillin (ok, that's sporadic enough as it is) and not feel that, in the back of my mind, the sages are laughing at me. Well, of course they wouldn't laugh, but you know what I mean--I need to overcome my feelings that what I am doing is to real Jewish prayer what frozen Lenders bagles are to the fresh baked ones.
And I pray that as I examine my spiritual life and try to be a better Jew, I can also be a better interfaith husband and walk with my wife on her spiritual journey as well.
shalom
Agnon
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majik1
9/14/2005 6:24 PM
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I'm doing similar things. I'm beginning to think that I'm the sinner's sinner, tho. I don't have enouh fingers to count the faus pauxs that I've made this week alone.
I'm working the 12 Step program for Overeater anon. I'm a compulsive overeater and unless I'm able to hand this insanity over to HaShem, I'm on a road to suicide via food.\
The program's 4th step is like Yom Kippur ia I see it. sin I must claim all that I've done wrong to others and make apologies to them for the pain that I've put upon them in my lifetime. Unless one has worked a 12 step program, it is difficult to read about yourself and see you as othes see you. It's kinda like the old saying, "buy you for what you're worth and sell you for what you think you're worth and make a million."
Of course, I may be thoroughty wrong in making the comparison of YK to the 12 Step. My thinking is always so simplistic, generalized and on an emotional level. I know HaShem is hearing my prayers to remove this insanity from my life. Perhaps on YK, I'll be able to hear or understand His response.
To all of you who are diligently working on becoming the best human and Jew that you can become, I wish you well; I wish you strength.
Agnon, with the positive influence, the time that you are investing in your son, he will do well :-) When I tink of the pebble in the lake story, I have always thought more in the negative terms, for that's how my pebbles and circles turned out. I was given a new & better twist this Sunday when R'Laible Wolf told us that those circles are also the positive influence that our lives and we (I) would best think that way. :-) Your son will be great. You and Clyde sound like great dads who have married great moms:-)
Nelda
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on-a-quest
9/14/2005 8:09 PM
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>>For Elul work, I did two things. I printed out a list of the mitzvot, crossing out the ones that can't been done today, and have been trying to focus on them, see which ones I've done, which I can do better, and which I need to atone for.
I've also got in mind drawing a chart of the different relationships in my life to examine how my actions in the past year have affected each person or group on the chart.<<
These are good ideas. Mind if I borrow them. ;-) This will be my first RH/YK as a Jew so it's relatively new territory for me.
Shalom.
Chanah
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