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 | 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 22, 2015 | High Holy Days Meditations
Searching The Heart (II): A Practical Exercise Day Five Like I promised yesterday, we are trading places for this exercise and will now be looking at the people we have hurt. The first few steps of the process are similar to what we already did: Begin by making a...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 22, 2015 | High Holy Days Meditations
Searching The Heart: A Practical Exercise Day Four This is the time in our retreat when we get to practice. We can hear about forgiving, we can read about forgiving, but all the books and the talks in the world won’t help if, at some point, we don’t roll...
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...
