28/08/2026
Elul is the month in which we are told to look honestly at ourselves.
Which sounds wonderfully spiritual until you actually do it.
Because what happens when you discover that some of the things you’ve spent years trying to repent for were never sins? That some things need changing, some need repairing, some need accommodating, and some were never broken in the first place?
Perhaps the frightening thing about standing before G-D is not that He sees everything we got wrong.
Perhaps it is that He also sees everything we got wrong about ourselves.
My latest Times of Israel blog:
THE TERRIBLE MERCY OF BEING SEEN
From the blog of Talyah Ginsberg at The Times of Israel