#yomkippur — Public Fediverse posts

Handling the Jewish High Holidays after experiencing grief and loss

While this is not a column about the life of a two-year-old, but rather about my second year…
#Israel #News #death #grief #highholidays #jerusalem #Jewishholidays #magazine #mentalhealth #roshhashana #RoshHashanah #Sukkot #YomKippur
https://www.europesays.com/3234294/

"It may be the middle of summer on the #Gregorian #calendar right now, but on the #Jewish calendar, we are approaching the end of the year. The month of #Elul begins this year at sundown on August 13. Although Elul contains no major Jewish holidays, it is quite an important period of reflection and preparation for the #HighHolidays, which begin with #RoshHashanah on the first of the following #Hebrew month, #Tishrei.

According to Jewish tradition, our fates are written on Rosh Hashanah and sealed for the upcoming year on #YomKippur. Because of that, Elul becomes an opportunity to strengthen our connection with #Hashem, or G-d; ask for forgiveness; repent; and return to Him. This process, known as #teshuvah, invites us to reflect on both our personal behavior and religious practice.

However, asking Hashem for forgiveness is not enough when we have wronged another person."

https://unpacked.media/i-am-for-my-beloved-and-my-beloved-is-for-me-why-is-the-month-of-elul-so-important-in-judaism/

the idea of my namesake as an autistic dude who has no interest in participating in the absolution of bullies and abusers, who is "grieved unto death" over the loss of a giant plant, who struggled with haShem and is RIGHT ... it makes my name and my identity fit me more than I knew when I first chose them

#yonah #jonah #yomKippur #tanakh #ketuvim #neurodivergent #autistic #neurodivergentJudaism @actuallyautistic @mazeldon

my girlfriend found this, and it's ... indescribable, what this means to me. my Hebrew name is Yonah, bc I felt so drawn to him as a biblical character, and yet I wasn't fully able to put my connection to him into words, until this article

"We know why Jonah runs because the prophet himself tells us at the end of the text. Jonah objects that God spares the Assyrians the consequences of their actions. They have done evil and they do not deserve to retain their status as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Jonah is not particularly impressed with the fasting and the public repentance; but he knows that God finds such behavior acceptable and averts their doom. If Jonah knows that there will be no real change and that Nineveh’s might and cruelty will ride roughshod over his people, why should he prophecize to them? Why do they not deserve justice?"

#yonah #jonah #yomKippur #tanakh #ketuvim #neurodivergent #autistic #neurodivergentJudaism @actuallyautistic @mazeldon

https://www.yeshivatmaharat.org/post/finding-justice-in-jonah