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Beth Tikvah program helps holiday preparation
KYLE BERGER STAFF REPORTER
Rabbi Martin Cohen of Beth Tikvah synagogue is offering a special High Holy Day program to the Jewish community aimed at preparing for the holidays.
The program, called the Elul Project, is designed to heighten people's awareness of the need to prepare for the High Holy Days rather than just show up for them.
Rabbi Martin Cohen is leading the Eiui Proiect at Beth Tilcvah synagogue.
Rabbi Cohen says the project. is "an opportunity for people to sort of begin to think in a cogent sort of direction about how to prepare for the holidays."
"Teshuvah [repentance] is based on the willingness to change, but change itsclfis based on the assumption you know yourself," he explained. "In order to think carefully about those things you have to isolate them and sort of think carefully about your life, where you are and where you want to go and that's not the type of thing that can be done in 10 minutes. ' "It's the type of thing that requires long, introspective thinking and this Elul Project is
designed to give people tliat kind of introspection,"
Rabbi Cohen says the program will help people get beyond self-analysis being just a cataloguing of errors. "It's one thing to own up to negative behavior," he explained, "but you don't want to own up to only having misbehaved. You want to isolate the reasons that you did what you have done. It's easy to say you should behave a certain way, it's something else to pin down what it is that's prompting you to behave that way." As tlie facilitator, he says he will add some personal experiences to the sessions.
"These things don't work well in a vacuum. You have to talk about real people and the on y person it's really fair to talk about is yourself."
The sessions run on all four Shabbatot during the month of September following morning services as well as one following the Sclichot evening service. Although the rabbi encourages attendance at all five sessions he says even attending one would be beneficial. "The more you go to, the more cogent the whole thing will be but we've tried to organize it in such a way that you can attend some of them," he said. "We're anxious for people to come as many times as they can but even if they just come to one it will bo somethmg."
The program was originated by a synagogue in Albany, N. Y., and is distributed through the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
There is no charge for the sessions and they are open to the entire Jewish community of Greater Vancouver. â–¡