We have entered into the next step of the Tishrei season: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, a day of fasting and praying for the strength to change what we must change.
The liturgy of Yom Kippur is both tender and challenging, evoking both the serious consequences of our actions, good and bad, and the tremendous potential of our lives for goodness.
It is ten days later, and the moon is bright, letting us know that it is possible to awaken ourselves. We fast on Yom Kippur as a kind of symbolic death, to remind ourselves that we must accept change for new life to become possible.
Here at Midrasha, we acknowledge that this time for a teenager (and as a parent of a teenager) is ALL ABOUT CHANGE. Our classes and teachers give our teens the skill and empowerment to explore this change and not fear or suppress it.
Have a meaningful fast and a renewed perspective for the upcoming year. It already is a year of change, so may we be in flow with it.
G’mar Chatimah Tovah,
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