Yom Kippur

God waits patiently for us to realize how much we are loved. (Click image to read more)

God is our mikvah, says Rabbi Akiva. On Yom Kippur, we look at ourselves in all our messiness, and we place ourselves, naked and vulnerable and full of shame, into the healing waters of God . . . (Click image to read more)

The things that cause us shame on a regular basis are not the “sins” that we are repenting for on Yom Kippur.   When do we generally feel self-critical?   What types of actions make us feel shame and embarrassment?  Such moments of inner discomfort often come from a social situation in which we have behaved

What we are doing in Kol Nidre is acknowledging our inability to sustain change on our own, admitting out loud our powerlessness to make the improvements necessary — through our own will power — to move forward in our lives. (Click image to read more)

We are all unwilling prophets of divine love. (Click image to read more)