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Month of Elul
What Happens During the Month of Elul? (Sundown August 8 – Sundown September 6, 2021)
Excerpts on Elul (The Rabbinical Assembly)
The Month of Elul (Chabad)
What is Elul? | How to Prepare for Rosh Hashanah | Tashlich, the Symbolic Casting Off of Sins (My Jewish Learning)
Workshops, Courses, & Events
Return To Self: Elul (At the Well) 11 a.m. Thursday, July 22. $5-18
The Conversation: Prepare for New Moon Elul (At the Well) 6 p.m. Monday, July 26. $5-18
POC Elul Well Circle (At The Well) 6:30 – 8 p.m. Thursday, August 5. $0-18
Project Zug Elul Cycle: Windows On Teshuvah (Hadar) August 8 – September 5. $18 discounted rate
The Shofar Project: An Elul Intensive (Institute for Jewish Spirituality) August 8 – September 6
Elul Zman: Reflect. Recommit. Re-engage. (Beth Jacob Congregation) 7:30 p.m. Mondays, August 9, 16, 23, & 30. Outdoors on the Beth Jacob lawn
Mishnah Collective: Days of AWE-some (SVARA) 12:30 p.m. Sundays – Fridays, August 8 – September 3; September 12-14; September 23-26. Drop-in OK
Elul Weekly Bet Midrash (SVARA)
Section 1: Invention of Teshuva (Yoma 85b) 7-9 p.m. Mondays, August 9, 16, 23. $85-300
Section 2: Imagining Reparations (Gittin 55a) 5 – 7 p.m. Tuesdays August 10, 17, 24. $85-300
Shofar In the Park (Shir Tikvah) 4 p.m. Sundays August 15 – September 24.
August 15: Folwell Park
August 22: Lake Nokomis Park
August 29: Linden Hills Park
September 5: Painter Park
Teshuva Workshop (The IOWA Project) 6 – 8 p.m. Tuesdays, August 31 & September 7
Further Resources & Reading
Confessions of the Heart: 30-Day Racial Equity Challenge (Jewish Emergent Network)
Elul journal prompts, home practices, & more (Rebekah Lowin)
How to Make Amends to Another Person (TC Jewfolk)
Preparing Our Souls for the High Holy Days video archive (Center for Contemporary Mussar)
Reflections for Elul (My Jewish Learning)
Return: 30 Days of Reflection workbook (Rabbi Jill Zimmerman)
The Shofar and the Snake (TC Jewfolk)
Teshuvah and True Connection (TC Jewfolk)
Waking Up (TC Jewfolk)
The Shmita Year
About This Holiday
Shemitah (Chabad)
What is Shmita? (Hazon)
What Is Shmita, the Sabbatical Year? (My Jewish Learning)
Workshops, Courses, & Events
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Submit Art for The Shmita Prizes (Hazon) Ritual Object, Fine Art, Film/Video, Performance Art/Liturgy/Music, and Written World categories. Due by Hanukkah 2021
Further Resources & Reading
Does Torah Call For Rent Holiday? (TC Jewfolk)
High Holiday Sermons: The Environment Re-visited (TC Jewfolk)
Weekly Parsha Essays | Shmita Sourcebook (Hazon)