by RabbiOlivier | Sep 15, 2017 | Torah Reflections
Nitzavim-Vayelech Deuteronomy 29:9 – 31:30 Embracing Our Unpreparedness My heart is beating a little bit faster than usual today. No, I didn’t have one cup of coffee too many. But it just so happens that the combined Torah portions for this week are Nitzavim and...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 22, 2015 | High Holy Days Meditations
Putting Our Name on The List Day Nine 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 22, 2015 | High Holy Days Meditations
Making Amends Day Eight 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 22, 2015 | General
Preparing to Make Amends Day Seven On Day 5 of our “Days of Awe” Musings, 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 22, 2015 | High Holy Days Meditations
I Now Forgive Day Six On this Day 6 of our personal retreat, we come to a place where we might be ready to forgive. On Day 4 we brought to mind and wrote about a person who has mildly hurt or offended us. I invite you to have what you wrote in front of you for this...
