About this episode
Elul is the 12th and final month of the Jewish calendar year. Elul Unbound is a Judaism Unbound initiative all about making Elul meaningful, through creative digital modalities. In this conversation, Lex Rofeberg and Wendie Bernstein Lash kick off this year's Elul Unbound experience. This Elul bonus episode is the first in a series of four that will be released as part of Elul Unbound 2025 (our 26th-29th Elul episodes overall). -------------------------------------- Energized about Jewish learning and unlearning? Dive into our upcoming 3-week mini-courses in the UnYeshiva! Classes include Elul: Your On-Ramp into Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur , Anti-Fascist Mussar , The Siddur (Prayer-Book) Unbound , and Comix Midrash: Drawing the Orchards (Pardes) of Elul . Head to JudaismUnbound.com/classes to learn more! Financial aid is available for all who need it. To check out all our Elul bonus episodes from previous years, which can still be relevant to your experience of Elul this time around, click here . Join our bi-weekly journey through Elul Unbound 2025 by signing up at this link , and sign up for our Elul Unbound Shabbat gatherings here , where we will be forging our kavanot (intentions) for the new year in real time with fellow Unbounders.