We’re blessedly busy, and spiritual preparation for the Yamim Noraim often gets neglected. With a little determination, we can add teshuvah to our daily routines.
SERVICE PLEASE Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller world-renowned Jewish women’s educator sums up the core focus of the day as the joy of crowning Hashem King over ourselves. “It’s the simchah of saying ‘I want to serve Hashem!’ ”
H ours of introspection. Impassioned recitals of Lamnatzeiach and awe-inspiring shofar blasts. Forceful exhortations to teshuvah during the critical moments before Ne’ilah. This is the stuff that the Yamim Noraim are made of and we all recognize these moments…from a hazy distant era back when we were eager students who spent hours with a Shaarei Teshuvah and lapped up shiurim in preparation for the season.
While back-to-school shopping caring for generations above and below us and putting bread on our tables are all worthy pursuits they combine to make accessing eimas hadin exponentially more difficult.
For many women the frustration is not an intellectual dissonance. They know where their place is at their current stage of life and they have no problem cleaning up spilled cereal instead of shuckling to the strains of Unesaneh Tokef. However there remains a niggling feeling of missing out on something important.
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