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By Amichai Lau-Lavie August 26, 2016

Activate your new year this High Holy Days season with Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Lab/Shul in NYC and one of the Forward’s Most Inspiring Rabbi’s of 2016, joining him on an annual 40 day journey to return, refocus, recharge and restart.

From the first day of the month of Elul – Sunday, September 4th – all the way to Yom Kippur on October 12th, Amichai will post a daily dose of inspirational intentions and simple tasks for reflection and perfection of the art of love. Now in its seventh year, Prepent offers 40 ways in 40 days to come clean, get lean (within), and begin, again.

Click here to read Amichai’s introductory blog: 40 Love Letters to Life: Why I Prepent.

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Lab/Shul, an everybody friendly, artist-driven, God-optional, experimental community for sacred Jewish gatherings based in NYC and reaching the world, is excited to be partnering for the first time with the Forward. We’ll be publishing each daily Prepent blog in Scribe, the Forward’s brand new contributor network.

How to sign up:

1) Subscribe for free to Lab/Shul’s mailing list to receive the daily blog in your inbox. Click here to subscribe by checking “Prepent” as a special interest.

2) Follow Lab/Shul on Facebook or Twitter.

3) Visit the Prepent 2016 Page on the Forward.

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