Decluttering for 5787

This is it: time to clear the slate and get ready for Rosh Hashanah. We’re now in Elul — a month of introspection. But we need more than the usual New Year’s resolutions. It’s also time to get rid of the junk and the obstacles that hold us back from living a good life. We were warned about this a long time ago. It was back in the Garden of Eden when we were told to stay away from that rotten apple tree or whatever forbidden fruit it was. It was also known as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which covers just about every piece of information we could cram into a gigantic set of encyclope...