Rosh Hashanah Overview
- Emor Project
- The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah actually means "Head of the Year."...
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Teachings from: Q and A About Teshuvah and Forgiveness
- Jacobson, Rabbi YY
- How do we know that Hashem will receive and accept our teshuva?...
Living Emunah Vol. 6 – Post 2
- Ashear, Rabbi David
- "This World is the world of tests. Hashem tailor-makes them for each person based on where he is holding in his life....
Living Emunah Vol. 6 – Post 1
- Ashear, Rabbi David
- "Hashem controls everything and that whatever He does is for the good, whether we understand it or not, and even if it is not what we wanted."...
Is Everyone Really Marriage Material?
- Ives, Rabbi Yossi
- "There is so much goodness and holiness in people; it is our duty to reveal it. Are we looking properly? What we see has a lot to do with what we are looking for. Are our eyes gazing heavenward, or are we staring into the gutter?"...
The Meaning of Tu B’av
- Lau, Rabbi Yisrael Meir
- "The Mishnah tells us that: 'No days were as festive for Israel as the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur.' ...What is Tu B'Av [and in] which way is it equivalent to Yom Kippur?...
The Laws of Tisha B’Av
- Ullman, Rabbi Yirmiyahu
- "Tisha B'Av is a day of mourning and repentance on which we recall the destruction of the First and Second Temples, and other tragic events in Jewish history that took place on this day."...
Do remember the past, but do not be held captive by it
- Adler Lambert, Rivkah & Mendlowitz, Ariella
- ""Jews never forgot those tragedies. To this day, at every wedding, we break a glass in their memory. Two and a half thousand years is a long time to remember... is it really right to remember?"...
Finding the Love in the Destruction – Part 2
- Lipitz, Ani
- "Each human being is a microcosm of the universe at large… But it is precisely during these periods of deepest darkness that the light of compassion shines the strongest in our souls, that the Infinite Itself is revealed before us. Because destruction, like all other forces in the universe,...
Finding the Love in the Destruction – Part 1
- Lipitz, Ani
- "We reflect on the spiritually and physically destructive events that occurred [during the 3 weeks]. Even today it’s considered to be an inauspicious time, when negative forces manifest more freely in the world....
17th of Tammuz
- Simmons, Rabbi Shraga
- "The 17th of Tammuz is a fast day commemorating the fall of Jerusalem, prior to the destruction of the Holy Temple....
Scattered Sparks – Post 2
- Freeman, Tzvi
- "The more we uncover the meaning of each thing, the closer the world comes to its fulfilment. Once we reach a critical mass of liberated sparks, the world begins to sing the song it was always meant to sing, loud and clear."...