A home made craft project with a cutout shape for each day in the progression of awakening, awe and celebration. Do five or do them all, and then show the world!
This week is about the progression towards creating a vessel, or a container. This is the first step on our journey making space. What are we going to fill that with? We’ll be answering that question over the next four weeks, as we move through this month of contemplation. To start with, these are some things we show up for in Elul:
HERE FOR TESHUVA This is the largest concept of the month, a complex word representing an even more complex set of ideas and processes that Jewish tradition gives us in order to progress through the “car wash” of the High Holidays. It’s a map for self-reflection as well as for checking in on your relationships - with family, friends, community and your spiritual life. All of my ideas and creations for this month stem from this process, so that we can better understand it.
HERE FOR SLICHOT This Hebrew word refers to the poems and prayers that are added during Elul - writings that
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ideas to think about as we work.
Meditations and Thoughts
I find that the actual act of crafting can be spiritual, but it’s even more connected to our hearts if we have some
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Welcome to our first week. We will be using art and creation as a spiritual practice. As a designer and artist myself,
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WEEK ONE: Crafting a Container
generations have used as the first step on the path to Teshuva. They are meant to be sung communaly at the break of dawn, in that liminal moment before there is light in the world (though various loopholes allow them to be said very late the night before, which is what many people do). In contemporary culture, particularly in Israel, secular or traditional musicians have reclaimed these poems (“piyutim”) to create beautiful sacred modern music.
HERE FOR THE SHOFAR This naturally created horn blasts us awake, reminding us in the most primal way that it’s time to wake up. “Get your S#%& together!” - we all need a reminder every once in a while, and this one is built into the Teshuva process, traditionally blasing every morning in Elul. Our final shape looks like the opening of the shofar, so when you create it, think of that as your own call of awakening.
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The entire work of Elul and Tishrei is comparable to cleaning, repairing and rebuilding a fractured vessel. Rosh Chodesh Elul is the time for soul accounting. Through our tears during Slichot we wash out our “containers.” On Rosh Hashanah we repair the container, reaching the epitome with the sounding of the shofar. The Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak, Likutei Diburim
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Day 2, Saturday August 22nd OneTable.org // @onetableshabbat // herefor.com
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Day 3, Sunday August 23rd
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Day 4, Monday August 24th
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Day 5, Tuesday August 25th
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Day 6, Wednesday August 26th OneTable.org // @onetableshabbat // herefor.com
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Day 7, Thursday August 27th OneTable.org // @onetableshabbat // herefor.com
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