There’s one week left before the season of reflection and repentance begins with the beginning of the month of Elul. Unless we take the five weeks from today leading up to Rosh Hashanah 5784 to examine who we are and who we should be, how we’ve lived our lives in the past year, and what we need to atone for and correct, the High Holy Days are, to put it bluntly, an exercise in futility and very much a waste of time. Support the show