What a Blessing
I am looking forward to Yom Kippur this year. No, not because I have sinned worse than in previous years. Nor because of the music or any...
Confess! Study text #2. From Maimonides Commandments, positive #73, Sefaria.org
... He commanded us to confess the transgressions and sins that we have done before God and to say them together with [our] repentance....
New Year: Consider Psalm 1
The opening page of a novel contains the entire novel they say. The opening Mishnah of Pirkei Avot authenticates the entire Talmud. The...
Judaism: Not a Belief System, A Way of Life
We call Jews "The People of the Book" for a reason. Judaism, unlike Christianity, does not rest upon faith. Along with the commandments...
On Prayer
All people pray. Regardless of our intellectual conflicts, we feel in our deepest selves an existential longing to transcend our...
Health: A Public Issue
Rabbi Mark H. Levin, DHL April 16, 2021 This week’s double Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora, plunges for three long biblical chapters into...
A Wandering Aramean and Me
Haggadah #11 Arami Oved Avi: A Wandering Aramean Tried to Kill My Father, and Dayeinu: It would have been enough. Three Torah sections...
From Degradation to Glory, Slavery to Freedom
Haggadah #10 Metehillah: In the Beginning Our Ancestors were Idol Worshippers Now we begin once again to recite the story from a...
Our Four Children: Each Special in His/Her Way
Haggadah #9 The Four Sons (Children) We recite our Magid section, telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt, over the second cup of...
You Shall Explain to Your Child When S/He Asks ...
Haggadah #8 Rabbis Eleazar, Yehoshua, Elazar ben Azariah, Akiva, Tarphon, and ben Zoma: five of the most famous Tannaim, discuss all...
