Elul Meditation Programme Week 2: Relationships with others and/or the Other Every love which depends on a thing – when the thing...

Rabbi Mark Goldsmith for ERA Elul Series 5782 In his 1968 book ‘Vietnam: Crisis of Conscience’, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel related the...

Rabbi Eliezer famously taught that one should: “Repent one day before your death.” So his disciples asked him: “Does a person know which...

The Wool of Elul There are four new years: the first of Elul is the new year for animals.[1] Sheep conceive in Nisan and give birth in...

Any gardener knows the importance of the work done in the Autumn. Clearing the beds of the colourful but dying annuals and tidying so...

Renewal and Resilience There is a growing sense of excitement during the month of Elul. We are getting ready for the Great Encounter....

MI ANI? Who am I? The essential question for each of us. What am I, where do I come from? Where do I go? The Humanist may have some...

Ani / Ish : My humanity – Who I am / What am I ? Rava said: “Every student of the Sages whose inner self is not like their outer self is...

Elul is traditionally a month of introspection and preparation for the coming Yamim Noraim – Days of Awe. Like many months of the Hebrew...