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‘Behind the Honey’ teaches children about bees, tradition and sweet harmony ahead of Rosh Hashanah.
Is she just the foil and nemesis of her far better known rival- wife Chanah, the heroine of the story?
Your child is not like everyone else; your child is you.
And yet, your child is not you; your child is his own person.
A paradox.
Our souls are that paradox—on a greater scale: the nexus between G‑d and His universe, where His own breath becomes His creation.
That is why we are called His children. And we call Him o...
Several days before Rosh Hashanah we begin to recite the Selichot, a series of penitential prayers and liturgy.
Stand for this, sit for that, stand again a moment later. To the uninitiated, it can look almost choreographed. And it is, but not arbitrarily so.
The Aleph Early Learning Center was built on a Jewish academic education that doesn’t compromise—and doesn’t charge
We've got a Shabbat Sandwich year: Shabbat at both ends, and all the other days of the year between them.
The Midrash relates that when Moses foresaw that the Holy Temple would be destroyed and
Jews would be unable to offer sacrifices in atonement, he asked G-d: “What will we do
then?” G-d replied: “Jew...
Before coming down into this world, a soul is given an oath: "Be a righteous person, and do not be a wicked person!"
– Talmud, Nidah 30b
Creation of the World
(3760 BCE)
The 1st day of creation, on which G-d
created existence,
time, matter,
darkness and light, was the 25t... Read More »
Jerusalem Walls Rebuilt
(335 BCE)
The rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem -- which had been in ruins since the destruction of the First... Read More »
Passing of Rabbi Elazar
(2nd century CE)
Passing of the Talmudic sage Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
Passing of R. Michel of Zlotchov
(1786)
Passing of Rabbi Yechiel Michel of
Zlotchov (1721?-1786), disciple of the Baal Shem Tov.
The Selichot ("supplication") prayers are recited in the early morning hours, before the morning praye... Read More »
As the last month of the Jewish year, Elul is
traditionally a time of introspection and stocktaking --... Read More »
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