Inspiration for Your Elul
Arise, arise, wear your strength. ISAIAH 52:1
Dear friends,
Happy Rosh Chodesh Elul! In the Jewish calendar, the month of Elul is a time of personal growth and increasing closeness with Hashem.
Though we focus more on the 50 day time of growth in the spring between Pesach and Shavuot, we also have a transformative period as summer transitions to fall. In this journey, we travel from the saddest day in the Jewish calendar (Tisha b’Av) to the happiest (Simchat Torah) – in just 73 days. The beginning of Elul is a key turning point in that transition. You can read more about this in my recently published article, As we Turn Toward Elul, Let’s Find Our Strengths.
With the beginning of the month of Elul tonight, I am inviting women to join me for a six-session class to Bring Your Inner Heroine to Life. You'll complete the class with something especially meaningful: your own hand-crafted purpose and vision to bring into the Jewish new year.
There are two ways to participate:
Join the conversation in real time. So many virtual classes these days become recordings you watch at your leisure (or listen to in the car or while exercising — what, just me?), but for this program I am committed to creating a meaningful community and real-time experience for the women who participate, including a private opportunity to share and ask questions after the streamed version closes. BE”H, class will take place over six sessions, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30-9:00 AM ET, starting this Tuesday August 22. Register for the full experience on zoom.
Join us asynchronously. On the other hand, if the timing doesn’t work for you, the first 10-15 minute public portion of the class will be live streamed in my facebook group and recorded there so you can watch it later. Come join the conversation there all month long at Growing Into All Our Gifts.
Too busy for any classes this month? I feel you. If you prefer to just read and work on your own, check out the Heroine’s Journal: A Jewish Mystical Journey of Growing into Your Gifts is a printable journal with twelve short lessons using Jewish wisdom and personal empowerment concepts to help you grow into all your gifts. For use during Elul and all year long! You can order a printed copy or download your own for free.
Wherever you are this year, whatever you are dealing with and whatever gifts you are growing into, I wish you a sweet, happy and healthy new year.
Evonne
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