Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
This year’s holidays (2024) are special, because three times during this month Jews in the Diaspora will celebrate a 3-day Yom Tov: Rosh Hashanah, the first days of Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret/Simchat...
Torah uses the same language to describe fasting on Yom Kippur as it does to describe living off manna in the wilderness. (Deut. 8:3)
In fact, the Talmud uses this as evidence that fasting on Yom Kippur means depriving yourself of physical food.
But there is more to this comparison.
Both provide a blissful, spirit...
I had expected “hyper”-Orthodox services to be ultra-solem. In reality, it was packed with joy, energy, passion, and meaning.
Once, after Rosh Hashanah prayers, the Alter Rebbe asked his son, the Mitteler Rebbe, “With
what meditation did you pray this Rosh Hoshanah?” He replied, “With the verse, ‘All mankind
shall prostrat...
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"...if we only knew the power of verses of Psalms and their effect in the spiritual realms, we would recite them constantly." – The Tzemach Tzedek
The Jewish New Year is a time of renewal, reflection, and deep spiritual connection.
A worry in a man's heart--he should discuss it with others
– Proverbs 12:25, as per Talmud, Yoma 75a
Fast of Gedalia Ends:
Assassination of Gedaliah
(423 BCE)
Today is a fast day mourning the assassination of the Jewish royal Gedaliah ben Achikam, governor of t... Read More »
Passing of R. Yoel Baal Shem (1713)
R. Yoel Baal Shem was a saintly rabbi and miracle worker who
led the Society of Hidden Tzaddikim
(righ... Read More »
Mourning the killing of Gedaliah (see "Today in Jewish History"), we abstain from food and drink from... Read More »
The 10-day period beginning on Rosh Hashanah and ending on Yom Kippur is known as the "Ten Days of Rep... Read More »
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