So while we are conducting spiritual inventory during Elul, we might begin by asking ourselves, What are the loose ends in my life? How is my mind torn? Where are the places my mind keeps wanting to go? What is the unfinished business in my life? What have I left undone? When we look out at the world through a torn mind, our experience of the world is torn. In some cases we might decide that it’s just time to let go—to recognize that we are distracted by something that will never be completed—and in some cases, we might decide that the only cure is in fact completion; that there’s nothing for
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