WHERE ARE WE HEADING? We have celebrated Pesach – the anniversary of the day we left Egypt. The date is known. 15th. of Nissan. But when...

We are in the middle of counting the Omer, the 49-day cycle of days, seven weeks, which take us from Pesach to Shavuot. It is an...

עבדי הזמן עבדי עבדים הם. עבד ה׳ הוא לבד חופשי. Slaves of time are slaves of slaves. Only the servant of God is free. (Yehuda Halevi) Most...

Why do we count the Omer? There are so many possible reasons to give, but one is that we are structuring the time between Pesach and...

CHAMETZ UMATZAH? The first of the Four Questions – remember them? - points out that what is special about Pesach is NOT that we eat...

Pesach is now behind us, and the fifty days between that Festival and Shavuot mark an extraordinary number of commemorations that range...

In the Omer days, we embark on a period of introspection and reflection. During these forty-nine days, we are called to reflect on our...

While waiting for an expected event, we sometimes would like time to fly faster, to disappear, to stop separating us from the day and...

As we count each evening from Pesach to Shavuot – forty-nine days or a week of weeks (hence the name Shavuot or Weeks) – we say a...

For Rosh Hodesh Iyar (Friday, April 21, 2023) Traditionally the Omer period has been perceived as a time of mourning, interrupted only by...