From tonight, we have one week until Rosh Hashanah! Selichot are in full force, and we are preparing to greet our New Year with joy and improvements in ourselves.
What are you doing to physically prepare for Rosh Hashanah? Have you gotten a Rosh Hashanah checklist, Rosh Hashanah Menu Template, and RH 2011 to do list?Are you filling them and and getting ready? Are you thinking about your shopping list?
What about your spiritual preparation? Do you have a date with yourself to look at your life? Maybe journal about it? Or write a good list of resolutions and put them somewhere you can see and work on them (for more, see goals). Those are some of my plans.
I have been told that this week can be a tikkun (or healing) for all the wrongs we’ve done each day in the past -like this Wednesday can make up for faults on previous Wednesdays. (This is also said about the 10 days of repentance in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur). I try my best, but I still have plenty of faults to make up for! I will be taking this time to do my best to be extra calm, patient with my children, and kind in general.
This upcoming week, and up until Yom Kippur, I still have some of the usual preparation and recipe posts planned. But bli neder (not a promise), I also plan to write more about Rosh Hashanah inspiration and spiritual preparation, and to provide you with links to more food for thought.
Please let me know how you are preparing for the upcoming holidays!
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