05 Sep NITZAVIM/ VAYELECH: RECOGNIZING OUR ROYALTY
As everybody knows, we blow the shofar a lot on Rosh Hashanah. In fact, we blow no fewer than 100 sounds on each day of the two days. Already the Gemara raised the question of why we...
As everybody knows, we blow the shofar a lot on Rosh Hashanah. In fact, we blow no fewer than 100 sounds on each day of the two days. Already the Gemara raised the question of why we...
The Rambam describes the various steps of teshuvah: “What is teshuvah? One must leave sin...
Worrying More About Our Souls Than Our Bodies During the Ten Days of Repentance There is a halacha in Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, Siman 603: “Even someone who is not meticulous about abstaining from bread baked by non- Jews...
We all are familiar with the custom of reciting Selichos from before Rosh Hashanah until Erev Yom Kippur (and some communities even from Rosh Chodesh Elul).). The question arises each year when the Selichos period is upon us as to when...
How Can He Be So Insensitive? The Haftarah for the first day of Rosh Hashanah tells the story of Chanah, the mother of the prophet Samuel. Chanah, the childless wife of Elkanah, came to Shiloh (where the Sanctuary...
THE This Shabbos, we read parshiyos Nitzavim and Vayeilech. We are coming towards the end of the Chumash, and the final days of Moshe Rabbeinu’s life. In Parshas Vayeilech, Bnei Yisroel are given the last...
There is a well-known custom to recite L’Dovid Hashem Ori, the 27th chapter of Tehillim, from the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul until after Sukkos. What is the source of this custom? Why is there such a...
INGREDIENTS: 1 stick margarine room temperature 3 tablespoons oil 2 eggs 1 cup sugar Zest of 1 orange 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup almond flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 3/4...
Many yungerleit in Eretz Yisrael don’t own a car. Although financially easier, and the bus system is good, taking buses can make traveling long and tiresome. Sometimes, a person can spend most of his day on busses. Such happened to...
There is a pasuk in the Book of Yirmiyahu (8:6) which, I believe, encapsulates what this month, the month of Elul, is all about. Yirmiyahu made the following observation about the people in his time: There is no...