“Eschewing a sense of entitlement and control in favor of a sense of meaning and potential is the work of the High Holiday season”

Eschewing a sense of entitlement and control in favor of a sense of meaning and potential is the work of the High Holiday season. It allows us to reflect on how and why we get in our own way, how our sense of entitlement, whether consciously or subconsciously, overrides our good judgment. This helps us to understand the idea of repentance which is at the core of the High Holidays.

Elana Stein Hain.”Baffled by the High Holidays? That’s life”, Times of Israel (7 September 2015) [http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-high-holidays-a-paradigm-not-a-problem/]