It’s the annual post-Sukkos ritual. We dismantle our sukkahs, put away the machzorim and decorations, and try somehow to salvage our precious esrogim – whether by boiling them to make esrog jelly, turning them into pincushions stuck with fresh cloves for havdala, or cutting them up to make esrog liqueur (I know, I’ve tried them all). And then, the Yamim Nora’im are truly over and we go back to “business as usual.”

Too often, the tremendous spiritual highs that we reached over Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur start to quickly wane and dissipate, as we re-immerse ourselves into the day-to-day challenge