by RabbiOlivier | Sep 17, 2015 | High Holy Days Meditations
What Does it Mean to Forgive? Why do we Resist it? Day Three Forgiving does not come easy to us. Let’s be honest, the ego is not one to easily give up the past hurts, affronts, painful incidents, and grudges it holds onto in its memory bank. All of these past...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 17, 2015 | High Holy Days Meditations
Back to Life, Back to Reality Day Two The Ten Days of Awe between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, are an opportunity to enter into a time of personal retreat, the theme of which is “forgiveness.” The path of forgiveness is one of the most powerful spiritual...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 9, 2013 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations, Torah Reflections
If these Days of Awe have revealed anything to me this year so far, it is — above all — that the work has to start with us. Doing the work of forgiveness is far from easy, far from comfortable; yet if we commit ourselves to healing, to living our lives...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 9, 2013 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations, Torah Reflections
Making amends is truly when the rubber meets the road. We have done all this work forgiving others, and now we have to go out there and repair the damage we have done. If we worked on our letter yesterday, and rehearsed our conversation, we might feel ready. Yet...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 9, 2013 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations, Torah Reflections
On Day 5 of our “Days of Awe” Retreat, we made a list of the people we have hurt. We selected one person from that list and went through a little writing exercise about our hurting this person. Today we prepare ourselves to make amends to this person....