Where the Rubber Meets the Road:

A Spiritual Accounting Action Plan for Elul and a Friend-raiser in Memory of Steve and Harriet Saturen z”l

Two-session event:

5 p.m. ET on Sundays August 24 & September 14, 2025

Traditionally, Elul has been a time for Jews to do cheshbon hanefesh, a personal spiritual accounting. This spiritual accounting is a central part of what we teach and practice all year at CCM.

Join us for two one-hour sessions at the beginning and end of Elul. In the first session on August 24, you will learn the essential concepts of spiritual accounting, and more importantly, create your unique way to make these concepts come alive during this month. In the second session on September 14th, we will come together to listen and compassionately learn from one another’s Elul journeys.

If you can’t make both sessions, they will be recorded for you.

This event is made possible by the generous support of these sponsors (as of 5/1)

  • Stanley Schiffman, in memory of Miriam Schiffman

  • Harriett Kirsh Pozen & Bobby Lopez

  • Cathy Schechter & Eddie Selig

  • Heidi Schneider

  • Diane & Ivan Arenson

  • Marty Towbin

  • Donald Gordon

  • Rabbi Harold Kravitz

  • Donnie Yance

  • Sheila & Mel Canal

  • Marty Jacobs

  • Sandi & Ken Kirschner

  • David Reifler

  • Elise Manders

  • Carol Daniels

  • Adie Goldberg, in memory of Steve and Harriet Saturen z”l

  • David Lerman

If you are interested in being a part of this momentous occasion and investing in the future of CCM please be in touch with the executive director, Andrea Deck at director@contemporarymussar.org

“My first experience of learning with Rabbi Stone was in New York City about twenty-five years ago, and I continue learning from him to this day. I would characterize his teachings as carrying with them a feeling of absolute relevancy – something that feels perennial, simultaneously ancient and fresh. And over time, I began to learn, and continue to learn, from myriads of others in our CCM community of mussarniks, truly a real-time community of practice and shared concern. It is a joy and an honor to be part of carrying on this lineage.” — Rabbi Joshua Boettiger

Meet Rabbi Joshua!

Rabbi Boettiger is Jewish Chaplain and Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He previously served as the Associate Rosh Yeshiva at CCM, and for the last decade, directed the Mussar program at Temple Emek Shalom in Ashland, Oregon.

Joshua also teaches Jewish Meditation, and co-leads silent retreats. He is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University.