{"id":28187,"date":"2006-06-30T01:36:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/holidays\/months\/conclusion_and_summation\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:23:14","slug":"conclusion_and_summation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/conclusion_and_summation\/","title":{"rendered":"Conclusion and Summation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us consider the following selection as an appropriate summation of all we have learned about Elul and Teshuva:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 size-266x266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Summary-768x512.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Summary-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Summary-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Summary-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"Summary\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" \/>&#8220;When you really get down to it, teshuvah today is a kind of death and rebirth: a demise of the past and a birth of a new life and a new creature. There is a severing with the previous &#8220;me&#8221; and the creation of a new &#8220;me&#8221; who has a new awareness, a new sensitivity, new ambitions and dreams and longings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somehow, the connections to the new life become very powerful, and at the end of the trail, the rewards are enormous: a sense of having returned home and of being part of our majestic tradition, a sense of the grandeur and beauty and warmth of it all, the awareness of God&#8217;s presence in one&#8217;s daily life, the feeling of meaning and purpose that permeates one&#8217;s self.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life becomes coherent and whole again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A Journey of a Mile begins with One Small Step<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us consider the following selection as an appropriate summation of all we have learned about Elul and Teshuva: &#8220;When you really get down to it, teshuvah today is a kind of death and rebirth: a demise of the past and a birth of a new life and a new creature. 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