"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you
so busy that you have little time to criticize others." Unknown
As the High Holidays approach, I am drawn again into self reflection. To look honestly and deeply at who you were in the prior year is terribly daunting. This year my personal self reflection has been grounded in the study of Pirke Avot – a classic text on Jewish ethical values sometimes translated as “The Ethics of the Sages” because of its subject matter.