Day 1- Rosh Chodesh Elul: The Season of Return Opens
The forty days begin. Tradition links this period to Moses’ second ascent of Sinai. After the people made the Golden Calf, Moses shattered the first…

The forty days begin. Tradition links this period to Moses’ second ascent of Sinai. After the people made the Golden Calf, Moses shattered the first…

From Rosh Chodesh Elul until Yom Kippur we walk a forty-day path of teshuvah—return. These days recall the forty days Moses spent on Mount Sinai…

Scripture: “Live in temporary shelters for seven days… so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought…

Scripture: “For on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord.”…

Scripture: “On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed.” – High Holy Day liturgy“For we must all appear before the…

Scripture: “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” – 2 Corinthians 4:17“For the earth…

Scripture: “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke?” –…