M. Evan Wolkenstein

Teshuva is the main thing we Yom Kippur enthusiasts do on the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tishrei. Teshuva is usually translated as “repentance,”(though yuck – I hate that word). And every year, I hear someone quote the medieval Spanish Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon’s formula for “doing teshuva.” Step 1: Admit how you effed up. (Mishneh Torah 1:1).Step 2: Show that you’re sorry, and take whatever actions you need to make sure you don’t eff up again. (Mishneh Torah 2:2) and fix w

Why I haven’t posted in a month had something to do with my cultural context. Q: Why have I not written anything for the last month? A: Long answer. It begins with G.I. Joe. When I was 14, I rounded up all my action figures, put them into shoe boxes, and hung posters: Lamborghinis, girls in bikinis, and a couple of rock bands. I know. Super original. If you had told me, six months earlier, that my beloved G.I. Joe space station would soon be as irrelevant to my life as a Fish