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Jewish Conversations on a Daily Path Toward Wholeness - How Mussar Learning and Practice Impacts Real Lives

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  • Elul Poetry 5 - Order and Rosh Hashanah

    Elul Poetry 5 - Order and Rosh Hashanah
    Sep 10 2026

    Mandy Roll-Kuhne contemplates Rosh Hashanah and its relation to the middah of seder / order through Marge Piercy’s poem “The Late Year.” The poem can be found in the prayerbook Mishkan Halev: Prayers for S’lichot and the Month of Elul (Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2017) on page 88, and it was originally published in The Crooked Inheritance: Poems (Middlemarsh Inc., 2006).

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    11 mins
  • Elul Poetry 4 - Humility and Hard Ground

    Elul Poetry 4 - Humility and Hard Ground
    Sep 3 2026

    Michael Kuhne presents his understanding of the middah of anavah / humility as it arises in Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Yehuda Amichai’s poem “The Place Where We Are Right.” Two texts are cited in this episode.


    Amichai, Yehuda. “The Place Where We Are Right.” Trans. Chana Block and Stephen Mitchell. Mishkan Halev: Prayers for S’lichot and the Month of Elul. Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2017. 132. The translation originally appears in The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Trans. Chana Block and Stephen Mitchell. University of California Press, 1996.


    Morinis, Alan. Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar. Trumpeter, 2008.



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    9 mins
  • Elul Poetry 3 - Love and the V’ahavta

    Elul Poetry 3 - Love and the V’ahavta
    Sep 3 2026

    Mandy Roll-Kuhne considers the poem “V’ahavta for Elul” by reflecting on its message of ahavah / love. The poem appears in Mishkan Halev: Prayers for S’lichot and the Month of Elul (Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2017) on page 35.
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    11 mins
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