{"id":28168,"date":"2006-09-19T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/holidays\/months\/articles_for_elul_by_rabbi_yaakov_luban\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:57:43","slug":"articles_for_elul_by_rabbi_yaakov_luban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/articles_for_elul_by_rabbi_yaakov_luban\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles for Elul by Rabbi Yaakov Luban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 size-266x266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Short-Story-e1471252671811.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Short-Story-e1471252671811.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Short-Story-e1471252671811-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Short Story\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" \/>Short stories for the Days of Awe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/pendulum\/\"><strong>The Pendulum<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/a_story_for_the_days_of_awe\/\"><strong>A Story for the Days of Awe<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/rosh-hashanah-5776\/\"><strong>Changing Perspectives<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/grand-slam\/\"><strong>The Grand Slam<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>If you received e-mail from an angel, would you heed\u2026<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/heavenly-call\/\">The Heavenly Call<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/the-merry-go-round\/\"><strong>The Merry &#8211; Go &#8211; Round<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short stories for the Days of Awe The Pendulum A Story for the Days of Awe Changing Perspectives The Grand Slam If you received e-mail from an angel, would you heed\u2026The Heavenly Call The Merry &#8211; Go &#8211; Round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":40338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,337,339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elul","category-rosh-hashanah","category-yom-kippur"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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