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Besides the party, what else do you have planned?

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Tomorrow is the first day of the secular new year of 2020.  A whole new decade.  Which means you probably have to reassess all those New Year’s Resolutions you’ve been running through in your mind.    (I make my personal resolutions in September/October, when the Jewish New Year rolls around.  And, my corporate KPI [key performance indicators] are evaluated three or four times a year to make sure we’re measuring (and achieving) the right things.)

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Elul’s End

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This is nearing the end of my annual introspective season.  Today is the last of the 30 days of Elul.  Tonight (all Jewish days begin at night; the Tora says, “There was evening, there was morning, one day”) is Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year).  The first day of Elul was the anniversary of my mom’s death and the coming of age of my eldest daughter.  Elul or Rosh Hashana are normally associated with  the advent of the academic year.  Plenty of reasons to wonder:  Am I where I want to be?  But, the questions I will pose today are ones we all need to examine each and every day….“How much do we really need?”

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