21 Sep Do We Deserve A “Corona Discount” This Yom Kippur

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Personal success in life is about “stretching”: can we transcend our current confines to achieve even higher ground? In many ways, teshuva is the “greatest stretch”: can we stretch beyond...

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21 Sep Getting to Know the New Owner of the NY Mets Steve Cohen

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September 14th, 2020 will be a major day of significance in the story of the New York Mets baseball franchise. On this date, news broke that the Mets and billionaire...

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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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