“A Jew [during]… the month of Tishrei acquires a lot of merchandise:… yiras shamayim (Fear of Heaven),… Ahavas Yisroel (Love for a fellow Jew),… hiddur mitzvah (enhancement of a mitzvah), …the spirit of the mitzvah. He makes a lot of good resolutions and commitments about how he’s going...
These Ten Days [between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur] are a special time when each individual is given the potential to restore the light of these Sefirot into their souls.
By addressing each particular Sefirah, studying and understanding its quality, processing it and internalizing it into our lives in...
"Rosh Hashana is the date of the creation of the first human beings. On that very first day...Adam and Chava committed the very first sin.
God judged them and forgave them. God said, ‘Just as you were judged before me on this day and emerged forgiven, so will your children...
Emor Project wishes you all a healthy new year filled with overflowing revealed blessings in all areas of ruchaniut and gashmiut (spirituality & physicality)....
A Night to Remember: On the Essence of Rosh Hashanah
Jacobson, Rabbi YY
"Rosh Hashanah [is] the day when the first human was created ...when small, frail, vulnerable and lowly human beings invite G-d to serve as their King.
But why does G-d need us to coronate Him?...
"...The relationship between us and G-d is a partnership. Partners are accountable to each other. In the month of Elul, we do our accounting. Rosh Hashana is audit day. G-d checks the books to see how we took care of His investment in us....
Identifying damaging patterns and personal bias is an essential step on a journey to freedom from our personal bondage.
In one way or another, we're all enslaved [by our inward psyche or our outside circumstances]....
