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Essays for the High Holidays

Dive into these essays for the High Holidays. Check out our High Holiday Podcast episode, “Making Your Soul a Vessel for Change.”

Woman smiling in a garden, wearing a blue top and patterned shawl, with trees and plants in the background.
Be brave and willing to be present to the moment — untamed, treacherous and holy.
A person wearing a suit and tie, smiling in an indoor setting with wooden stairs in the background.
I derive strength from imagining that God prays for strength to do what is right.
Smiling woman with glasses and short brown hair, wearing a blue top and necklaces, outdoors with flowers behind.
God created each of us as an individual with the inherent need to be in relationship with another, to connect with another and to share with another.
Woman smiling in a garden, wearing a blue top and patterned shawl, with trees and plants in the background.
God is the ground of being, the truth that we so often run away from or delude ourselves about.
A woman with curly hair smiles in front of a body of water.
Yizkor can be a way of remaining spiritually interwoven with loved (or unloved) ones in the world beyond.
Person wearing glasses and a medical device around their neck, outdoors with grass and trees in the background.
As a marginalized person, I have long found the Yom Kippur liturgy to be as damaging as it is powerful.

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