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Binding of Isaac
Every year as the New Year approaches I find that, despite my best intentions, reality dictates that I concentrate more on the physical preparations than the spiritual ones for the holiday....
Sep 17, 2009
By Ester Katz Silvers
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Rosh Hashanah: New Year’s Greetings
The Rama writes that it is customary on Rosh HaShana to greet with the expression, “May you be inscribed for a good year” (OC 582:9). However, some people adopt a slightly...
Sep 17, 2009
By Asher Meir
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Mark Your Days
There are calendars which provide the convenience of viewing one day at a time. At the end of the day, the day’s page is torn off and disposed of. When the...
Sep 16, 2009
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
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The Same Old Story?
One fateful Rosh Hashana Day, the soul of Gershon Kleinbard stood in an endless line of living souls, each waiting to appear before the Master of the Universe for the moment...
Sep 10, 2009
By Rabbi Yaakov Luban
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Nitzavim: Closing Thoughts
The hour is late. That’s a double entendre – for it’s a couple of hours before the Holy Shabbos, the last one of the year and only a few more days...
Sep 10, 2009
By Rabbi Asher Brander
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Vayelech: Never Give Up!
It’s a scary familiar term – one that we invoke to assess the unexplainable and capture the unimaginable. The phrase? Hester Panim and it means that God hides His face from...
Sep 10, 2009
By Rabbi Asher Brander
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Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Blessing the New Month
Customarily, the Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh is called “Shabbat Mevarchim” because after the Torah reading the coming of the new month is announced and then a special prayer is said (Rema...
Sep 10, 2009
By Asher Meir
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Re’eh: Shofar in Elul
There is an ancient custom to blow the shofar in Elul. The source is in the Midrash: “On Rosh Chodesh the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moshe: Ascend...
Aug 13, 2009
By Asher Meir
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Vaetchanan – Hatov Vehametiv in Birkat Hamazon
This Shabbat is Tu b’Av, a happy day when Tachanun is normally omitted because of the many joyful historical events which occurred on this date. One such event is that on...
Jul 29, 2009
By Asher Meir
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Devarim: Commemoration of the Destruction
Although the Temple in Yerushalayim has been desolate for almost two thousand years, its memory is very much alive for the Jewish people. We remember the Temple in our daily prayers,...
Jul 23, 2009
By Asher Meir
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