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Step Into the Cloud - Sukkot
Season 6
Step Into the Cloud
Ananei HaKavod And according to
the Vilna Gaon, Sukkot does not merely celebrate the cloud that protected us in
the desert. After…
1 month ago
A Kabbalah and the Silver Dollar
Season 6
Every
Yom Kippur we are tempted to make enormous promises—to change everything, fix
everything, become someone completely different. But HaShem asks u…
1 month ago
The Prayer That Reopened the Case
Season 6
This week, Chantelle and I found ourselves climbing the narrow mountain roads into Peki’in, walking through a place where the world of our Ḥakhamim …
1 month ago
The Door Yom Kippur Cannot Open
Season 6
We
can fast for twenty-five hours. We can beat our chests, cry through Kol Nidrei,
confess every sin and remain in synagogue until the final .
But the …
1 month, 1 week ago
When the Excuses Run Out - Ha’azinu, Rabbi Elazar ben Dordaya, and the Courage of Teshuvah
Season 5
We all have explanations for why we are the way we are. It was our parents. It was
the home we grew up in. It was our environment, our circumstances,…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why Some Don’t Dip the Apple in Honey
Season 5
Why would anyone avoid honey on the very night when we are asking Hashem for a
sweet year? The answer takes us from the ancient customs of Ashkenaz t…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Closer Than We Think — What Torah Is Trying to Make of Us - Nesavim
Season 5
less badIn
this morning’s ,
we explore a remarkable teaching of Rabbi Frand built around the words Why did HaShem
create us unfinished? Why does the T…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Open the Gates — The Secret of the Tehilim of Parnassah And Finacial Success
Season 5
Why
did become one of our
great prayers for ?
We say it every Sunday as we begin a new week. In Moroccan communities it is
recited as Shabbat departs a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
When the Rebel Says Amen - Can the Yetzer Hara Become the Yetzer Tov?
Season 5
When the Rebel Says Amen
Can the Yetzer Hara Become the Yetzer Tov?
Every morning, we wrap the tefillin shel-yad around our arm and then place the …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
When You Can’t See the Runway
Season 5
When You Can’t See the Runway
What
happens when we find ourselves flying through the clouds — unable to
see what lies ahead, frightened by the turbul…
1 month, 4 weeks ago