The annual rosh hashana post
Just under the wire; crossposted from fb, with bonus screened comments.
Tonight starts Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In various social media over the years I've quoted a bit that spoke to me: "for transgressions against G-d, the Day of Atonement atones, but for transgressions against [another human] the Day of Atonement does /not/ atone, until they have made peace with one another."
This year's Days of Awe have gotten away from me. Much running around or travel, or looking for keys, and the Acro weekend in the middle of it all. Usually some time before, uh, an hour and a half before most people would be starting Kol Nidre I would have already posted some variation on essentially
"If I've hurt or pissed you off or upset you in some way I most likely did not intend to, and would prefer to figure out how not to do so again. And I may well not even realize that there is an issue between us. Please, if there is something between us, consider contacting me so that I can work to fix it, to make amends, to try not to keep creating that problem."
I've had better words in other years, in other places. But pretty much that's the meat of it - If there's something the matter between us, the timing of the fixing is far less important to me than knowing what's up and having a chance to attempt to heal it.
For those of you who fast tonight, I wish you an easy and meaningful fast.
Tonight starts Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In various social media over the years I've quoted a bit that spoke to me: "for transgressions against G-d, the Day of Atonement atones, but for transgressions against [another human] the Day of Atonement does /not/ atone, until they have made peace with one another."
This year's Days of Awe have gotten away from me. Much running around or travel, or looking for keys, and the Acro weekend in the middle of it all. Usually some time before, uh, an hour and a half before most people would be starting Kol Nidre I would have already posted some variation on essentially
"If I've hurt or pissed you off or upset you in some way I most likely did not intend to, and would prefer to figure out how not to do so again. And I may well not even realize that there is an issue between us. Please, if there is something between us, consider contacting me so that I can work to fix it, to make amends, to try not to keep creating that problem."
I've had better words in other years, in other places. But pretty much that's the meat of it - If there's something the matter between us, the timing of the fixing is far less important to me than knowing what's up and having a chance to attempt to heal it.
For those of you who fast tonight, I wish you an easy and meaningful fast.