Daily Creative
Prompts for Elul 2024

with Rabbi Jordan Braunig

Jewish Studio Project is thrilled to be collaborating with Rabbi Jordan Braunig for the third year running to deliver daily writing prompts for Elul. Daily prompts will appear in your inbox at 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET and be collected here for the 29 days of Elul. If you’d like to experience this journey with a loved one, have them sign up here!

Elul Day 9 - ט באלול
Rabbi Jordan Braunig Rabbi Jordan Braunig

Elul Day 9 - ט באלול

I sometimes like to think of this group as a secret Elul club, bound together by a desire to prepare for the year ahead and to find our way back, collectively, to the paths we seek...

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Elul Day 8 - ח באלול
Rabbi Jordan Braunig Rabbi Jordan Braunig

Elul Day 8 - ח באלול

I know that shrooming rabbis are a dime a dozen these days, but this was a year of deep discovery for me...

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Elul Day 7 - ז באלול
Rabbi Jordan Braunig Rabbi Jordan Braunig

Elul Day 7 - ז באלול

Pride is a funny emotion. It arrives at some of the times you’d expect it, when a child graduates from kindergarten, when a niece celebrates her bat mitzvah, when a parent is honored for their achievements...

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Elul Day 6 - ו באלול
Rabbi Jordan Braunig Rabbi Jordan Braunig

Elul Day 6 - ו באלול

In a year where no one will stop talking about the similarities between this moment and 1968, is it any wonder that one of the poems that I found most affecting centers on that fateful year...

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Elul Day 5 - ה באלול
Rabbi Jordan Braunig Rabbi Jordan Braunig

Elul Day 5 - ה באלול

Last year, during the month of Elul, my oldest child celebrated his bar mitzvah. I did not reflect on it during my prompts last year...

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Elul Day 4 - ד באלול
Rabbi Jordan Braunig Rabbi Jordan Braunig

Elul Day 4 - ד באלול

No prompt tonight as we enter the weekly day of rest, Shabbat. See you tomorrow for our next Daily Creative Prompt for Elul!

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Elul Day 2 - ב באלול
Rabbi Jordan Braunig Rabbi Jordan Braunig

Elul Day 2 - ב באלול

The soul accounting that we do in the month of Elul can impel us towards difficult conversations...

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