By Spinoza Havurah
Join Spinoza Havurah for a Shabbat service and discussion exploring how Elul can retain its spiritual depth without supernatural belief.
What does teshuvah mean if there is no divine judge keeping account? Can the shofar still call us to wakefulness, reflection and change? And what makes Elul sacred if holiness is understood not as something imposed from heaven, but as something created through human attention, responsibility and repair?
Together we will explore Elul through a Spiritual Humanistic Jewish lens: rejecting the supernatural while retaining the sacred, and reimagining repentance, prayer and preparation for the High Holy Days as practices of honest self-examination, reconciliation and renewal.
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