I read about 10Q after the holidays last year. An organization called Reboot sends out 10 questions for the Jewish New Year — one question a day for 10 days — to individuals who sign up. Individuals’ answers are sealed for the year and then sent back to them prior to beginning the next new year.

Last year, the questions were posted on an electronic billboard in Times Square.  According to Rabbi Benjamin Blech, those people whom he stopped on the street and questioned admitted how meaningful they found “this unexpected invitation to personal contemplation.”

In his article for Aish’s weekly messages, Rabbi Blech poses his own 10 questions for us to contemplate, one for each day of the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.  I share them with you as just one way to help keep us focused on the work at hand as we prepare ourselves for Yom Kippur. You can also check out Q10 and the questions that program is posing.

Question 1: What should I be grateful for as I begin the New Year?

Question 2: What do I owe God for all the things He’s done for me? I love the business card a rabbinic colleague once gave me. On the flip side of the basic name/address/phone information it read: “What on earth are you doing for heaven’s sake?”

Question 3: What can I do to ensure that God hears my prayers? The difference between prayer and the study of Torah, Rabbi Kook beautifully explained, is that in prayer man speaks to God, but with Torah God speaks to man.

Question 4: Am I optimistic about the coming year?

Question 5: What is my dream for the coming year?

Question 6: What should I be doing differently this coming year? Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are all about change. If I don’t work to improve any of my failings, I just didn’t get the message.

Question 7: What should I pray for?

Question 8: Who should I pray for?

Question 9: What small step can I take to begin meaningful change?

Question 10: What can I do for my people and for the land of Israel? Elie Wiesel put it beautifully when he said that what he fears more than man’s inhumanity to fellow man is his indifference.

May this new year be one in which we are successful at connecting the pieces to the various parts of our life as we seek to grow in our understanding of ourselves and our relationships with God and others.  Shanah Tovah.