Finished-off sukkah after post-holiday storm.
The setting of this evening’s sun ushered in the 27th day of Tishrei, which means there are four days left of our 60-day spiritual journey through the months of Elul and Tishrei, including the Jewish High Holidays. Perhaps your sukkah was vulnerable enough to be destroyed by a post-holiday storm. The mahzorim (High-Holiday prayer books) have been packed away, the Torah rewound back to the beginning. Winter’s coming, it’s time to get back to work.
But don’t let go of your spiritual travels of the past two months! It’s not too late to reflect on the Eternal Moments you may have experienced, even record them in writing. The task before us now is to draw in all that Divine energy we felt during the holidays, let it fill us, and turn our inspiration into action. There are blessings to be said, people to be loved, Hebrew to be learned, a broken world in need of our help.
Judaism teaches us not to abandon the material world or separate ourselves from it, but rather to transform every “mundane” thing into a holy one.
