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Rosh Hashanah
By the Numbers
My Top 11 Affirmations for Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year is a time of renewal, reflection, and deep spiritual connection.
The Jewish New Year is a time of renewal, reflection, and deep spiritual connection.
7 New-Years Mindsets for (Current and Aspiring) Urban Joggers
What running can teach about the year ahead.
What running can teach about the year ahead.
29 Recipes to Enhance Your Rosh Hashanah Table
Here's where you can find our favorite recipes for round challas, tzimmes, leeks, brisket, and virtually every other sweet Rosh Hashanah you could possibly wish to make.
Here's where you can find our favorite recipes for round challas, tzimmes, leeks, brisket, and virtually every other sweet Rosh Hashanah you could possibly wish to make.
Ordinary People; Extraordinary Stories
The North is Under Attack, We Do Not Fear
While rockets, drones, and mortars fly overhead, Rabbi Sholom Ber Hertzel of Chabad of the Golan Heights together with his family work tirelessly to service the soldiers and members of his community who are bravely stationed along the northern border of Israel.
While rockets, drones, and mortars fly overhead, Rabbi Sholom Ber Hertzel of Chabad of the Golan Heights together with his family work tirelessly to service the soldiers and members of his community who are bravely stationed along the northern border of Israel.
Letters of Light
Halachah for Life
Holiday
The Fake Captain and the Ice-Cream Barge
Glyndwr Michael didn’t make much of a mark in his lifetime. But once he was dead, he really stepped up.
Glyndwr Michael didn’t make much of a mark in his lifetime. But once he was dead, he really stepped up.
How Do Chassidic Jews Celebrate Rosh Hashanah?
I had expected “hyper”-Orthodox services to be ultra-solem. In reality, it was packed with joy, energy, passion, and meaning.
I had expected “hyper”-Orthodox services to be ultra-solem. In reality, it was packed with joy, energy, passion, and meaning.
Video
A Rosh Hashanah Meditation
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 prostrate themselves before You’.” Then the Mitteler Rebbe asked his father, “With what meditation did you pray?” The Alter Rebbe responded, “I prayed with my lectern.”
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 prostrate themselves before You’.” Then the Mitteler Rebbe asked his father, “With what meditation did you pray?” The Alter Rebbe responded, “I prayed with my lectern.”
Parshah
History
The Heroic Tale of Aidel Kikinesh
This unsung (and unknown) Jewish hero gave her life on this date in 1718.
This unsung (and unknown) Jewish hero gave her life on this date in 1718.
Blessed are you G-d our G-d, king of the universe, who left nothing lacking in His world, and created within it good creatures and good trees with which He gives pleasure to people
— Blessing on blooming fruit trees, recited each spring during the month of Nissan
Print Magazine
How can you attain love of an infinite G-d? Through love of your fellow human beings.
As Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa would say, “If people like you, G-d likes you too.”
How did he know?
Because he knew that if people truly like you, it must be that you genuinely like them.
And when you hold genuine love in your heart for ...
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