Today is the last day before Yom Kippur. Tonight, I am driving home to spend the holiday with my family. Tomorrow we sit in synagogue all day, praying for forgiveness and hoping that G-d will inscribe us in the book of life for the coming year. In the ten days between Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, we are supposed to be asking for forgiveness and repenting for the sins we have committed this past year. A website I discovered this year was Do You 10Q? Every day, there is a new question that asks you to reflect on the past year and make decisions about how you want to live your life in the coming year. After you answer all of the questions, you submit them and next year, your answers are emailed back to you. I challenge you to take some time to reflect and think about how you will make life better next year.
May you all be written in the book of life for the coming year. Shana Tova.
Here are the questions:
1. Describe a significant experience that has happened in the past year. How did it affect you? Are you grateful? Relieved? Resentful? Inspired?
2. Is there something that you wish you had done differently this past year? Alternatively, is there something you're especially proud of from this past year?
3. Think about a major milestone that happened with your family this past year. How has this affected you?
4. The revolution in Egypt really made me look at the way we present ourselves in how information about us shared in ways we don't even know. Made me question how we percieve ourselves, do we value anything differently by sharing too much or too little? what does it mean to be addicted to facebook that we are so curious about the lives of others but can't talk to them or ask them personally. How is this world going to change with the creation and development of more technology? are we going to stop actually communicating with each other and just emailing/messaging/posting on the internet? how will that affect relationships, the way we view the world?
5. Have you had any particularly spiritual experiences this past year? How has this experience affected you? "Spiritual" can be broadly defined to include secular spiritual experiences: artistic, cultural, and so forth.
6. Describe one thing you'd like to achieve by this time next year. Why is this important to you?
7. How would you like to improve yourself and your life next year? Is there a piece of advice or counsel you received in the past year that could guide you?
8. Is there something (a person, a cause, an idea) that you want to investigate more fully in 2012?
9. What is a fear that you have and how has it limited you? How do you plan on letting it go or overcoming it in the coming year?
10. When September 2012 rolls around and you receive your answers to your 10Q questions, how do you think you'll feel? What do you think/hope might be different about your life and where you're at as a result of thinking about and answering these questions?
May you all be written in the book of life for the coming year. Shana Tova.
Here are the questions:
1. Describe a significant experience that has happened in the past year. How did it affect you? Are you grateful? Relieved? Resentful? Inspired?
2. Is there something that you wish you had done differently this past year? Alternatively, is there something you're especially proud of from this past year?
3. Think about a major milestone that happened with your family this past year. How has this affected you?
4. The revolution in Egypt really made me look at the way we present ourselves in how information about us shared in ways we don't even know. Made me question how we percieve ourselves, do we value anything differently by sharing too much or too little? what does it mean to be addicted to facebook that we are so curious about the lives of others but can't talk to them or ask them personally. How is this world going to change with the creation and development of more technology? are we going to stop actually communicating with each other and just emailing/messaging/posting on the internet? how will that affect relationships, the way we view the world?
5. Have you had any particularly spiritual experiences this past year? How has this experience affected you? "Spiritual" can be broadly defined to include secular spiritual experiences: artistic, cultural, and so forth.
6. Describe one thing you'd like to achieve by this time next year. Why is this important to you?
7. How would you like to improve yourself and your life next year? Is there a piece of advice or counsel you received in the past year that could guide you?
8. Is there something (a person, a cause, an idea) that you want to investigate more fully in 2012?
9. What is a fear that you have and how has it limited you? How do you plan on letting it go or overcoming it in the coming year?
10. When September 2012 rolls around and you receive your answers to your 10Q questions, how do you think you'll feel? What do you think/hope might be different about your life and where you're at as a result of thinking about and answering these questions?
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