Take Refuge

Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer

Rosh Hashanah, 5781

Our sages understood this period--Elul and the Days of Awe--as an ir miklat, a city of refuge reconfigured in time. 

These 10 days, these עשרת ימי התשובה are our days of return. Tonight, the door opens for us to enter this sanctuary. In ten days, at the close of Yom Kippur, we will symbolically close the door behind us. But for now, let these ten days be our refuge. Our coming home. Our place to pray, to cry, to dream and renew.