Engaging w/ Elul August 23, 2013

Preparing for Shabbat is an opportunity.  It is the chance to ready oneself for a day apart, a day different.  Tonight we enter the second to last Shabbat of 5773.  We prepare for that final full week of the month of Elul.  As we do this spiritual preparation for the year ahead, how will your hopes, your dreams and your potential be echoed and realized in the coming year?  Make that your question for this Shabbat.  Ponder it.  Use the sanctity, the palace in time (phrase belonging to Abraham Joshua Heschel) to commit yourself to what matters in the year that is just ten days away.

Shabbat Shalom,

Rabbi Evon