One way to prepare for a Fast Day is to enhance the spiritual element of eating in the days before the fast:
Eating with
When I was a kid we had a simple but profound way to deal with mistakes; “Do Over!” If only life were so easy. I want a “Do Over!” I wrote a blog, Careful With My Words, complaining about all the spammers who regularly attack the...
“Men can be provincial in time, as well as place,” Alfred North Whitehead once remarked. Provinciality is a characteristic of societies and individuals who fail to conduct periodic critiques of their beliefs and who assume, with some degree of smugness, that the knowledge they possess...
Pirsumei Nissa - Publicize the Miracle
We derive the appellation for God’s Name, used in the Rosh Chodesh Mussaf – Additional Prayer – from the combination of letters and vowels of the following verse: “Declare the greatness
There are in the Jewish year two festivals, which serve to commemorate the miraculous manner in which God intervened on behalf of our people even after it had lost its political independence. These are Chanukah, in memory of God’s miraculous
“When the wicked Greek kingdom rose up against Your people Israel to make them forget Your Torah and compel them to stray from the statutes of Your Will.” The Greeks understood
“The wars that you have made.” Why do we refer to God as “making” wars? The term to “make” refers to the end result of something, as in “I will make you into...
Pirsumei Nissa - Publicize the Miracle
L’Hodot – Thank You
L’Hallel – Rejoice in Song
Candle – Potential
“The wars that you have made.” Why do we refer to God as “making” wars? The term to “make” refers to the end result of something, as in “I will make you into...
“When the wicked Greek kingdom rose up against Your people Israel to make them forget Your Torah and compel them to stray from the statutes of Your Will.” The Greeks understood
There are in the Jewish year two festivals, which serve to commemorate the miraculous manner in which God intervened on behalf of our people even after it had lost its political independence. These are Chanukah, in memory of God’s miraculous
When I woke up this morning I found all the lights, inside and out, were on. The kids, who went to sleep after their parents, did not turn off any lights, did not put on the alarm, did not wash their dishes or even put...