21 Sep Yonah: The Psychologist Story Meditations Inside A Fish

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NO BRAINER A freshman in college started his first day of classes. His Jewish teacher was clearly an atheist, and started the day by saying the following: “Students, is there anyone...

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21 Sep Asking Mechila on Group Email, Mass Texts, or Facebook is Inauthentic

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Please forgive me if I don’t send a mass email or group text message or Facebook post asking everyone for mechila. Also forgive me if I see you in the...

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21 Sep Is the Akedah Ethical

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It seems that every few years, someone argues that the message of the Akedah, the binding and near-sacrifice of Yitzchak (Gen. 22), is something other than that we should follow...

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15 Sep Davening for Mitzvos

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In Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 583 we learn that one should eat various simanim on the night of Rosh Hashana. Upon eating black-eyed peas we say, “Yehi ratzon sheyirbu zechuyoseinu.”...

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15 Sep Geshmak or Shver: Are You Willing to Sacrifice or Must it All Come Easy?

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A few summers ago, my wife, Yocheved and I were in a remarkable s u p e r m a r k e t . The supermarket was larger than...

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15 Sep Understanding the Shofar’s Call

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The Midrash (Vayikra Rabba) teaches that on Rosh Hashanah, G-d sits on the "throne of judgment," ready to carefully judge and scrutinize every individual. But when we sound the shofar,...

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14 Sep Eating Before Tekias Shofar: Revisiting the Costum of Yeshivos

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There are so many sacred memories that stay with us from the special time that we spend in Yeshiva in Israel. I was privileged to spend one year at Yeshivas...

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14 Sep The Covid-19 Update for the Yomim Noraim

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As we approach the Yom Hadin, I am being asked many questions regarding the Yomim Noraim and Succos so I have drafted some general guidelines for Rabbanim and lay leaders...

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14 Sep Special Kashruth Questions for the Yomim Noraim

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This month many of the bakeries sell raisin challah. Many local bagel stores recently stopped selling cinnamon raisin bagels. Are raisins kosher to eat? The OU’s position is that raisins are...

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14 Sep Forget the Rabbi: The Cantor, The Lion, and The Fox

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THE LAST WISH On Rosh Hashanah night, the Kazaks captured the rabbi, the cantor and the president of the synagogue, and granted them a final wish before they would be put...

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