Unfolding

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on Translations
Av
Humble Dust, Fertile Ashes
Lofty Thinking
Down to the Foundations
The Story Is Told: Love Builds, Hate Destroys
Hate or Love
The Story Is Told: The Ruins of the Temple
Acts of Love and Kindness
The Story Is Told: Resilience
Elul
The Dawn Breaks
Forty Days
 A Knock on the Door
The Days of Awe and Terror
Shedding a Skin
The Inner Life: Cheshbon HaNefesh
A Word
A Question
Self-Reflection
The First Day of Fall
Rosh HaShanah
The Mystery: Prayer, God, Silences
The Marshlands of Prayer
PraiseSong
The Unknown
Clarity
Hannah’s Prayer
Quiet Down
Avinu Malkeinu
Hin’ni: Here I Am—The Confession of a Broken Heart
Proclaim the Power of This Day: Un’taneh Tokef
The Story Is Told: Find the Aspirations of Your Heart
Hide and Seek
The Story Is Told: The Whole World Is Full of Glory
In Common
Wandering, Wondering
A Thousand Sparks of Light
The Empty Chair
Dwell in Beauty
Simplicity
Longing and Amazement
To Consider
The Story Is Told: Lost and Found
The Names of Rosh HaShanah
The Names
The Hidden Moon
The Story Is Told: Carry the Light Within
HaYom Harat Olam: The Day Before the World Is Born
Yom HaDin: The Day of Judgment
These Are the Days of Awe
Shofar: Breaking Through Complacency
T’kiah: Listen
Sh’varim: Sigh
T’ruah: A Sad and Joyful Blast
T’kiah G’dolah: Sustained Anticipation
The Ten Days of Repentance
The Broken Heart, the Injured Spirit
My Life Is Real
Lev Nishbar V’nidkeh: A Broken and Humbled Heart
Bewilderment
Divine Discontent
Zero Visibility
Hope
Unfolding
What Is, Is
The Things We Say to Ourselves
Yom Kippur
Returning Home: Forgiveness and Repentance
Soft and Sharp Edges
Kol Nidrei
The Story Is Told: Repentance Is Healing
A New Iteration
Changing
Asked, Called, Commanded
I Am the Builder and You Are the Landscape
Forgiveness
Drifting Home
Seven Practices Toward Awakening
The Paradox
Confession
Draw Us Near
The Story Is Told: Look for a New Way
Sh’ma Koleinu: Hear Me
Repentance
Three Sins
Forgive Me
The Story Is Told: Gossip
What Is Said, Is Said
What Can I Say?
Return Home: Character and Moral Compass
Character
The Story Is Told: So Says the Prophet
All My Life
The Story Is Told: So Says the Prophet
A Moral Compass
The Mapmaker
Return to Love
An Invitation
Acceptance
Certain Words
Have Learned to Be Quiet
The Story Is Told: The Turkey Prince
Spiritual Companion
Three Core Beliefs
Four Practices: Change Your Destiny
Restoration
Gates, Books
The Book of Memory
A Humble Servant
The Story Is Told: Before the Law
The Shadows Fall
God of Records, God of Memory
Eternity’s Edge
Reckoning
My Sacred Regard
Sources and Permissions
About the Author