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The Days of Awe have the potential to be filled with trepidation and fear as well as with wonder and possibility. No words from the machzor have more potential to elicit both than the haunting words of the Unetaneh Tokef’, in which we are told that during the Days of Awe our fate in written and sealed.

This lesson offers students ways of understanding the ‘decree’ that awaits each of us in the coming year and the varied ways that it might be impacted by t’shuvah, t’fillah and tzedakah. Students are lead through a process of creating a personal understanding of the concept of ‘averting the evil of the decree’ and produce a document that might be mailed to each later in the school year as a reminder of their intention.