What Are You Working On This Elul?
Posted on | September 21, 2011 | By Administrator | 6 Comments
As yesterday’s post pointed out inspiration serves as a motivator but strengthening your Avodas Hashem (service of Hashem) is the real goal.
What are you working on this Elul
a) Improving kavannah during Shomenah Esrai
b) Saying Tehillim more often
c) Learning with more depth
d) Spending more hours per week learning
e) Starting another seder of learning
f) Refraining from Loshon Hara and Onoas Devorim
g) Being happy with my lot
h) Working on my anger
i) Wasting less time
j) Thinking more about Hashem during the day
k) other
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September 21st, 2011 @ 5:18 am
Spend more time with my wife
Spend more time with my kids
Look for the Good in people, even if they have a different approach to Judaism
September 21st, 2011 @ 3:26 pm
a) Improving kavannah during Shomenah Esrai
i) Wasting less time
September 22nd, 2011 @ 10:23 am
I’m working on really wanting to do all of the above. That’s a step.
September 22nd, 2011 @ 12:15 pm
For me, Elul isn’t so much a time to “work on” stuff as much as a time to consider how I’ve done over the year with the “stuff” I targeted at the year’s beginning and worked on during the year.
September 22nd, 2011 @ 1:58 pm
My same items keep coming up again every year for scrutiny. There is some progress on most fronts, but far more to do. At least, being conscious of problems helps in addressing them.
Most center on developing more patience and on-taskness.
September 24th, 2011 @ 11:13 pm
This Elul, my teshuvah includes quitting the Democratic Party because it is committed to promoting so-called “gay rights” and so-called “gay marriage”, and joining the Conservative Party, because it is the only party committed to opposing so-called “gay marriage.”