In this four-day bridge between Yom Kippur and Sukkot, Liddy and I will soon get out our sukkah parts so we can build our sukkah, but I am still thinking of and really feeling for Jonah. This morning it landed on me differently that after Jonah has spoken to Nineveh and they’ve repented and God has forgiven them, Jonah builds himself a sukkah to the east of the city.
Read MoreI hope you’ll join me as we prepare for the New Year!
This year, our Elul Journaling time will focus on themes from the Book of Jonah:
Rebuke and Repair | Protest, Resistance, and Rest | Love Your Neighbor, Love Yourself | In the Belly of the Fish
Yesod shebe Netzach
Foundation and Bonding within Endurance
Sunday evening May 19 and Monday May 20
Jonah walks like he’s on stage, and not just any stage. Jonah walks as though he were in a musical and any moment the opening bars of a song will pour from the sky. Jonah walks like Chaim Topol as Tevye and Barbara Streisand as Fanny Brice . . . or probably as Miss Marmelstein.
Surrounded by children, Jonah is telling them his story.
