Dear Friends,

The month of Elul began this week. It is the final month of the Jewish calendar year, the month before the High Holidays.

Elul is traditionally considered a month of reckoning, when we are meant to take stock of our behavior over the past year, much like a business takes an account every so often of its inventory, income, expenses, and so on. We look back at the year that has passed and we attempt to determine what we did right and what worked, and what could use improvement in the year to come.

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi – the Alter Rebbe, founder of Chabad – taught that during this month G-d’s attributes of mercy shine brighter than all year, and His glory is far more accessible than it usually is. With this knowledge, we are encouraged to work on our relationship with G-d in ways that might not have been possible throughout the year.

There are 4 traditions to add during this month:

1. recite 3 extra chapters of Tehillim (Psalms) every day. Each day we continue along the book, concluding it in Yom Kippur.
2. hear the shofar - a shorter series of sounds that prepares us for the High Holidays
3. recite Psalm 27
4. give extra charity and study extra Torah

Wishing you an uplifting Shabbat,

Rabbi Mendy & Mussy

p.s. As always, we would love to chat with you over coffee or drinks, about Judaism, or just life - reply to this email.

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9/12 - Mussy's Birthday Farbrengen Celebration

9/23 - One Dor Over Happy Hour

9/24 - New Moon Circle: Jewish Charm Bracelets

10/2 - New Years Rosh Hashana Dinner

10/3-4 - Rosh Hashana Services and Shofar Blowing at the Stephen F Austin Hotel

10/3 - shofar on the Pfluger Bridge

High Holidays are coming!

IMPORTANT: all the Holidays are in October this year and they are mostly on Weds night into the Shabbat. Plan your work and trip schedules accordingly.

Rosh Hashana - evening of Oct 2 into Shabbat Oct 4

Yom Kippur - Oct 11 and 12

Sukkot - evening of Oct 16 into Shabbat Oct 18

Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah - evening of Oct 23 into Shabbat Oct 24

and I'm very sorry to say but this affects the TX-OU game, ACL and more. Time to do some inner core exercises and remind ourselves that Judaism is real and everything else is the simulation

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