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Rosh Hashanah

By the Numbers
10 Things I Really Don’t Want to Hear From My Rabbi on Rosh Hashanah

Rabbi, here are a few tips, just suggestions mind you, of things you might say in your sermon that might interest me—if come.
17 Facts About Hannah (Chanah)

Discover how G-d answered Hannah's prayers, gifting her with the prophet Samuel.
10 Questions:Take the Jewish Divorce Quiz

How well-versed are you in Jewish divorce?
Voices
How a Prayer by a Pond Brought Renewal

I felt at a loss. How could I comfort this beautiful Jewess? She was broken. How could I make her feel whole again?
My Wife (and G-d) Wanted Me to Put on Tefillin With a Jew in the Airport

How one businessman inspired four people to don tefillin.
Video
The Real Reason We Blow Shofar

The deepest things can only be said in the simplest ways.
An Extra Sweet Year

In case it has been decreed upon a person to turn to others for help this coming year, it should already be fulfilled now, by receiving this sweet cake.
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Tashlich

Discover why you should not feed the fish at Tashlich.
Hebrew Word of the Week
Parenting: Horim (הוֹרִים)

Jewish News
70 Years of Bringing Shofar to the Streets

Jewish History
Rabbeinu Avraham, Maimonides’ Almost-Forgotten Son and Successor

A staunch defender of his father and a mystic and scholar in his own right, Avraham Maimonides fused rationalism with mysticism.
Your Questions
Why No Nuts on Rosh Hashanah?

There are different reasons given for this custom, each impacting the parameters of what (and when) exactly we refrain from eating.
Lifestyle
Honey Cake Rum Balls

If I am not for myself, who is for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
— Hillel (Ethics of the Fathers 1:14)
Print Magazine

That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—that force is a single whole, and it is G‑d.

It is not all of G‑d. It is an expression of G‑d. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothin...

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