Renew Our Days of Old? Are You Kidding?! by Rabbi YY Jacobson
During this time of year, in the Selichot we request over and over “Chadesh Yameinu K’Kedem.” Rabbi YY’s revolutionary response to a sceptical email-writer (and to others who have asked this same question, like me!:).
Read MoreThe Shana Tova Phone Call
I love this, two women so eager to bless each other and each other’s families with a sweet new year that neither can finish a sentence. This is the feeling in the air now, a pre-Yom Kippur vibration of nervous anticipation and blessings from everyone direction.
Read MoreThe Rosh Hashana Raffle Winner
On one of the Israeli army bases, they organized a Rosh Hashanah party for the soldiers. At the party, they made a raffle. There were 300 soldiers, and each put 50 shekel into the raffle, totaling 15,000 shekalim. A donor from the USA matched the amount collected, making the total raffle prize 30,000 shekalim. Everyone […]
Read More2 Gentle Teshuva Exercises
2 easy tools that are helping me to get into gear for Yom Kippur.
Read MoreBefore we ask Hashem for another year…let’s thank Hashem for the past one
(Annual average for each person) 42 million heartbeats❤ 8 million breaths🌻 2,55 million words spoken🗣 7.84 million blinks👁 1.22 million steps taken👣 219,999 swallows 🚰 2,555 bathroom visits🚻 1460 meals and snacks 🍽 2000 lbs. of food consumed 🍌 5,475 hours of your eyes working👀 And don’t forget… Your livelihood💵 health😷 happiness😊 nachas💑 personal miracles🙌 […]
Read MoreThe Texans Who Came for Rosh Hashana
A few weeks ago a Christian woman from Houston Emailed to ask if she and some family and friends could come to us for a meal over Rosh Hashana. I was contemplating the nicest way to respond “No,” when I read a few more lines and was intrigued to hear that she and her husband […]
Read MoreThe Final Selichot of the Year
Last night at the Kotel, thousands joined in song and prayer and yearning at the last Selichot before Rosh Hashanah. May Hashem bless each and every one of you with a new year abounding with magnificent blessings–spiritual, emotional, and physical. Shana tova umtukah!!
Read MoreA Busy Mom’s Rosh Hashana Mitzvah Checklist by Rabbi Da’vid Sperling
It’s not always easy to juggle the holiness and special mitzvot of Rosh HaShana with the holy task of taking care of kids. Here’s a basic list of the most important mitzvot of Rosh Hashana, and the simplest way to go about doing them. This is a checklist for women in general, and especially women […]
Read MoreIn the Moment by Yosef Wildes
This wonderful, newly-released song is a call to connect with the present moment and with our souls. A perfect High-Holidays wake-up call. Yosef is a frequent guest at our Shabbat table, this video gives you a taste of the soulful singing we get to enjoy whenever he comes over. Yosef is also the son of […]
Read MoreUman, Uman Rosh Hashanah?!
An elderly rabbi won’t give up on his dream to spend Rosh Hashanah in Uman, despite the war and his wheelchair.
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