Return again, return again, return to the land of your soul.
Return to who you are.
Return to what you are.
Return to where you are born and reborn.
Welcome to Elul, the last month of the Hebrew calendar year. The word Elul works as an acrostic for the Hebrew passage Ani l’dodi, vli’dodi’ li: “I am your beloved, and the beloved is mine.”
This passage reminds us that the Divine is in all the aspects of the world and ourselves. We are each other. From this consciousness springs our compassion.
This month kicks off our annual chance to look inward — individually, yet in the presence of our assembled community. We get ready to account for all that has not served us, and begin the work of repairing a fractured mind and a fearful heart. The time is now to reflect on all the moments in this past year when we have “missed the mark.” Don’t miss this opportunity to return to yourself. This is
the first step; take it with your best foot forward.
Themes of Elul
• Listening for the call
• Spiritual accounting
• Return to self
• Readying for deep, compassionate forgiveness
Explore more ways to engage with Elul through journaling, recipes, art, poetry and meditation in At the Well's Elul Moon Manual.
We Dance Around The Shul
By Trisha Arlin
Our Torah is old.
The blue velvet cover
And the silver plate that hangs over the velvet
Are both covered in names
Of donors long gone,
And their honored loved ones, gone even longer.
These names mean nothing to us:
We ignore them
On Shabbat
When we dance around the shul.
On Selichot we put aside the old velvet
And dressed our Torah in fresh white covers,
only a year old,
Donated by a beloved member,
Amina.
She died this year, four days before Rosh HaShanah.
Tonight it’s Simkhat Torah.
So we now take off Amina’s white cover
And put on the old one,
Blue, embroidered with strangers' names.
Then we will dance around the shul.
We will think of Amina every year at this time
From now on
Until none of us are around,
Until there is no one who remembers her,
Or us.
Then others will carry this scroll with the white cover
Donated by a Jew they never knew,
While they dance around the shul.
We give thanks for the ancient traditions,
Telling the story even when we can’t,
Keeping our loved ones’ memories
And giving us Torah from the beginning, every year.
Interpretation of Mourner's Kaddish
By Emily Rose Antflick
יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא
Growing in holiness, we inhale and breathe tiny human words
Into the immensity of sacred spacetime
אָמֵן
Amen
בְּעָלְמָא דִּי בְרָא כִרְעוּתֵהּ וְיַמְלִיךְ מַלְכוּתֵהּ בְּחַיֵּיכון וּבְיומֵיכון וּבְחַיֵּי דְכָל בֵּית יִשרָאֵל בַּעֲגָלָא וּבִזְמַן קָרִיב, וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן
In this breathing moment and all the sunsets to come
As trees broaden in ring and root, and raindrops carve boulders to sand
As human languages are born and changed and silenced
We say: Amen
אָמֵן
Amen
יְהֵא שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא מְבָרַךְ לְעָלַם וּלְעָלְמֵי עָלְמַיָּא
May the ripple of these blessings
Be felt for infinite lifetimes
יִתְבָּרַךְ וְיִשְׁתַּבַּח וְיִתְפָּאַר וְיִתְרומַם וְיִתְנַשּא וְיִתְהַדָּר וְיִתְעַלֶּה וְיִתְהַלָּל שְׁמֵהּ דְּקֻדְשָׁא. בְּרִיךְ הוּא
May geodes and damselflies,
Soft fur, dark berries, glowing plankton
Be marveled at, praised, adored
For their own sake
And we say: bless it all!
בריך הוא
Bless it all!
לְעֵלָּא לְעֵלָּא מִכָּל בִּרְכָתָא וְשִׁירָתָא תֻּשְׁבְּחָתָא וְנֶחֱמָתָא דַּאֲמִירָן בְּעָלְמָא. וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן
Every song, every blessing, every compassionate utterance
Rises high and sinks deep, expands and contracts
And reverberates beyond our time on this planet
And we say: Amen
אָמֵן
Amen
יְהֵא שְׁלָמָא רַבָּא מִן שְׁמַיָּא וְחַיִּים עָלֵינוּ וְעַל כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל כָּל יוֺשְׁבֵי תֵבֶל. וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן
May the wonder of the night sky make space in my god-wrestling heart
And enfold all the restless hearts in a vast peace
And we say: Amen
אָמֵן
Amen
עושה שָׁלום שָּׁלום בִּמְרומָיו היא תעשה שָׁלום עָלֵינוּ וְעַל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל כָּל יוֺשְׁבֵי תֵבֶל וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן
May all the cycles of my life and of all our human lives
Echo the easeful orbit of the celestial bodies
And we say: Amen
אָמֵן
Amen
Return again, return again, return to the land of your soul.
Return to who you are.
Return to what you are.
Return to where you are born and reborn.
Welcome to Elul, the last month of the Hebrew calendar year. The word Elul works as an acrostic for the Hebrew passage Ani l’dodi, vli’dodi’ li: “I am your beloved, and the beloved is mine.”
This passage reminds us that the Divine is in all the aspects of the world and ourselves. We are each other. From this consciousness springs our compassion.
This month kicks off our annual chance to look inward — individually, yet in the presence of our assembled community. We get ready to account for all that has not served us, and begin the work of repairing a fractured mind and a fearful heart. The time is now to reflect on all the moments in this past year when we have “missed the mark.” Don’t miss this opportunity to return to yourself. This is
the first step; take it with your best foot forward.
Themes of Elul
• Listening for the call
• Spiritual accounting
• Return to self
• Readying for deep, compassionate forgiveness
Explore more ways to engage with Elul through journaling, recipes, art, poetry and meditation in At the Well's Elul Moon Manual.
We Dance Around The Shul
By Trisha Arlin
Our Torah is old.
The blue velvet cover
And the silver plate that hangs over the velvet
Are both covered in names
Of donors long gone,
And their honored loved ones, gone even longer.
These names mean nothing to us:
We ignore them
On Shabbat
When we dance around the shul.
On Selichot we put aside the old velvet
And dressed our Torah in fresh white covers,
only a year old,
Donated by a beloved member,
Amina.
She died this year, four days before Rosh HaShanah.
Tonight it’s Simkhat Torah.
So we now take off Amina’s white cover
And put on the old one,
Blue, embroidered with strangers' names.
Then we will dance around the shul.
We will think of Amina every year at this time
From now on
Until none of us are around,
Until there is no one who remembers her,
Or us.
Then others will carry this scroll with the white cover
Donated by a Jew they never knew,
While they dance around the shul.
We give thanks for the ancient traditions,
Telling the story even when we can’t,
Keeping our loved ones’ memories
And giving us Torah from the beginning, every year.
Interpretation of Mourner's Kaddish
By Emily Rose Antflick
יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא
Growing in holiness, we inhale and breathe tiny human words
Into the immensity of sacred spacetime
אָמֵן
Amen
בְּעָלְמָא דִּי בְרָא כִרְעוּתֵהּ וְיַמְלִיךְ מַלְכוּתֵהּ בְּחַיֵּיכון וּבְיומֵיכון וּבְחַיֵּי דְכָל בֵּית יִשרָאֵל בַּעֲגָלָא וּבִזְמַן קָרִיב, וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן
In this breathing moment and all the sunsets to come
As trees broaden in ring and root, and raindrops carve boulders to sand
As human languages are born and changed and silenced
We say: Amen
אָמֵן
Amen
יְהֵא שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא מְבָרַךְ לְעָלַם וּלְעָלְמֵי עָלְמַיָּא
May the ripple of these blessings
Be felt for infinite lifetimes
יִתְבָּרַךְ וְיִשְׁתַּבַּח וְיִתְפָּאַר וְיִתְרומַם וְיִתְנַשּא וְיִתְהַדָּר וְיִתְעַלֶּה וְיִתְהַלָּל שְׁמֵהּ דְּקֻדְשָׁא. בְּרִיךְ הוּא
May geodes and damselflies,
Soft fur, dark berries, glowing plankton
Be marveled at, praised, adored
For their own sake
And we say: bless it all!
בריך הוא
Bless it all!
לְעֵלָּא לְעֵלָּא מִכָּל בִּרְכָתָא וְשִׁירָתָא תֻּשְׁבְּחָתָא וְנֶחֱמָתָא דַּאֲמִירָן בְּעָלְמָא. וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן
Every song, every blessing, every compassionate utterance
Rises high and sinks deep, expands and contracts
And reverberates beyond our time on this planet
And we say: Amen
אָמֵן
Amen
יְהֵא שְׁלָמָא רַבָּא מִן שְׁמַיָּא וְחַיִּים עָלֵינוּ וְעַל כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל כָּל יוֺשְׁבֵי תֵבֶל. וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן
May the wonder of the night sky make space in my god-wrestling heart
And enfold all the restless hearts in a vast peace
And we say: Amen
אָמֵן
Amen
עושה שָׁלום שָּׁלום בִּמְרומָיו היא תעשה שָׁלום עָלֵינוּ וְעַל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל כָּל יוֺשְׁבֵי תֵבֶל וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן
May all the cycles of my life and of all our human lives
Echo the easeful orbit of the celestial bodies
And we say: Amen
אָמֵן
Amen
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