by RabbiOlivier | Oct 15, 2012 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations
Preparing to Make Amends – Day 7 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Oct 15, 2012 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations
I Now Forgive – Day 6 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Oct 15, 2012 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations
Searching The Heart (part 2): A Practical Exercise – Day 5 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Oct 15, 2012 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations
Searching The Heart: A Practical Exercise – Day 4 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Oct 15, 2012 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations, Torah Reflections
What Does it Mean to Forgive? Why do we Resist it? – Day 2 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...
by RabbiOlivier | Sep 1, 2012 | Adult Learning, High Holy Days Meditations, Shabbat, Torah Reflections
Ki Teitzei Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19 Why Say A Blessing? As we find ourselves entering the second half of the book of Deuteronomy, our weekly parasha/portion contains a record of individual, familial, and communal laws and mitzvot. In the passage that...
