Thank you for joining this journey of reflection and preparation for the new year led by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie and London-based, visual artist Jacqueline Nicholls.
On this journey you’ll engage daily with original artwork created by Jacqueline Nicholls accompanied by commentary and prompts written by Rabbi Amichai Lai-Lavie. Jacqueline’s animated artwork explored the poetic liturgy of the Days of Awe, and through visual manipulation, asks us to consider new interpretations of our ancestral text.
August 20th – September 18th
Here’s a sneak peak at what you’ll get to engage with every day during the 30-Day Challenge.
What do I seek, today?
“To You I say: Seek my Face”
Like dreams, like new year resolutions, forgotten birthday wishes whispered as the exhale fights the tiny flames that crown a cake – the words that spell the magic of my better being have faded away from my mind. But they never leave my heart.
Today I pick up where I left off, starting a crisp new page in my book of life. On this new moon, I start again to ask the questions that will help me simplify and clarify my life.
This month of Elul invites us for a full moon cycle of honest reflections on who we are and how we want to be in the world, how can we be more happy, healthy, and helpful. Now more than ever.
Psalm 27, chosen centuries ago to accompany this pilgrimage into the new year includes this longing: See me, sings the human heart to anybody who will listen, to the inner Higher Self that radiates compassion. See me, face to face, even across these screens that now reflect us to each other. Remember who I really am and who I seek to to be, and to be better. Remember to remind as I reflect this back to you, so we can hold each other’s heart and climb this sacred mountain, eye to eye, hand in hand, again, each step ahead a quiet question.
Today I seek your presence.
What do I seek, today?
“To You I say: Seek my Face”
Like dreams, like new year resolutions, forgotten birthday wishes whispered as the exhale fights the tiny flames that crown a cake – the words that spell the magic of my better being have faded away from my mind. But they never leave my heart.
Today I pick up where I left off, starting a crisp new page in my book of life. On this new moon, I start again to ask the questions that will help me simplify and clarify my life.
This month of Elul invites us for a full moon cycle of honest reflections on who we are and how we want to be in the world, how can we be more happy, healthy, and helpful. Now more than ever.
Psalm 27, chosen centuries ago to accompany this pilgrimage into the new year includes this longing: See me, sings the human heart to anybody who will listen, to the inner Higher Self that radiates compassion. See me, face to face, even across these screens that now reflect us to each other. Remember who I really am and who I seek to to be, and to be better. Remember to remind as I reflect this back to you, so we can hold each other’s heart and climb this sacred mountain, eye to eye, hand in hand, again, each step ahead a quiet question.
Today I seek your presence.