Yom Yerushalayim
Below is a list of programs for Yom Yerushalayim for USA audiences planned over Thursday evening and Friday. The full schedule appRead more...
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As in any year, I want to start with a comment on the Halachot of Pesach and then go into a theme of the Chag. But this is not like any other year, so I want to link the two in the summation of what I want to share.
I spoke last Tuesday night about some of the numerous...Read more...
The Creation story at the beginning of the Chumash is a universal story. It doesn’t take us more than 20 generations to get to Avraham Avinu, but it’s still a universal story.
The remarkable thing is how much it remains a universal story. More than half of the world takes its religious orientation from these stories because Christians and Moslems make up more than half of humanity. After them, the...Read more...
There is no month of the Jewish year more laden with hints than Elul. Like all of the names of the months, it came back with the Jews from Babylon. But the fact that it is not Hebrew has not deterred many Sages from finding reference to it all over Tanach.
I want to point to a reason for this explosion of hints, and then speak about a few of the most prominent ones.
