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30 Days of Elul at Temple Beth El
Awesome Quotes for the DAYS OF AWE
This year, the Temple Beth El Clergy have created the 30 Days of Elul: Awesome Quotes for the Days of Awe. Elul is the month preceding the High Holy Days. This is a month to spiritually prepare for the High Holy Days to reflect and repent. Elul is traditionally a time of introspection and personal accounting.
Starting in the evening of Sunday, August 8, 2021, and each of the 29 days of the Hebrew month of Elul, a new box will be clickable below to reveal a new quote of inspiration handpicked by the Temple Beth El Clergy to prepare us for the Jewish New Year. We will be sending daily notifications via email, text, or social media for each new inspirational quote, or you can bookmark this page to visit each day.
1
Sunday, August 8
Rosh Chodesh Elul
Jews have six senses. Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing… memory. The Jew is pricked by a pin and remembers other pins. It is only by tracing the pin prick back to other pinpricks – when his mother tried to fix his sleeve while his arm was still in it, when his grandfather‘s fingers fell asleep while stroking his great grandfather’s damp forehead, when Abraham tested the knifepoint to be sure Isaac would feel no pain – that the Jew is able to know why it hurts. When a Jew encounters a pin, he asks: “What does it remember like?”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
2
Monday,
August 9
1 Elul 5781
3
Tuesday,
August 10
2 Elul 5781
4
Wednesday,
August 11
3 Elul 5781
5
Thursday,
August 12
4 Elul 5781
6
Friday,
August 13
5 Elul 5781
7
saturday,
August 14
6 Elul 5781
8
Sunday,
August 15
7 Elul 5781
9
monday,
August 16
8 Elul 5781
10
Tuesday,
August 17
9 Elul 5781
11
wednesday,
August 18
10 Elul 5781
12
thursday,
August 19
11 Elul 5781
13
Friday,
August 20
12 Elul 5781
14
Saturday,
August 21
13 Elul 5781
15
Sunday,
August 22
14 Elul 5781
16
MONday,
August 23
15 Elul 5781
17
Tuesday,
August 24
16 Elul 5781
18
wednesday,
August 25
17 Elul 5781
19
Thursday,
August 26
18 Elul 5781
20
friday,
August 27
19 Elul 5781
21
saturday,
August 28
20 Elul 5781
22
sunday,
August 29
21 Elul 5781
23
monday,
August 30
22 Elul 5781
24
tuesday,
August 31
23 Elul 5781
25
Wednesday,
september 1
24 Elul 5781
26
thursday,
september 2
25 Elul 5781
27
friday,
september 3
26 Elul 5781
28
saturday,
september 4
27 Elul 5781
29
Sunday,
september 5
28 Elul 5781
30
monday, september 6 | 29 Elul 5781
