Elul

28th Elul -Gifts from our friends

Gifts from our Friend ודודי – ומתנות The month of Elul is characterized by the “king in the field” metaphor: we can easily address our...

27th Elul : Stepping forward is the motto

The new year hides in itself a striving for relationships. The Hebrew letters with which the year 5783 are written are ת-ש-פ-ג. The word...

26th Elul -Yizkor - we remember and God remembers

TALES FROM THE RABBI’S DESK. YIZKOR. I like Yizkor. That time in the service when we remember those who once lived - and who no longer...

25th Elul :When we help the poor we help ourselves

When we help the poor, we help ourselves לי = לאביונים One day, a Rabbi announced an event under the infamous name "Shabbat for the...

24th Elul: All the world is a Narrow Bridge...

RABBI NACHMAN As the shofar announced the end of Yom Kippur last year who could have predicted the state of the world a year later as we...

23rd Elul Days Are Scrolls, Write on them what you want to be remembered

Days are scrolls, write on them what you want to be remembered Bachya ibn Pakudah (c1050 – 1120) In one of the great cartoons produced by...

22nd Elul The Selichot of Library Books

22 The Selichot of Library Books I grew up in a poor family; we owned few possessions of note beyond our books. Every wall was covered...

21st Elul - nothing is so precious as time

Yom Kippur is no longer a day simply of general and ritual atonement. It is a day for us to restructure our lives, to reconcile our...

20th Elul Two Great Lights

Half way through the days of creation, two great lights were put into the firmament to act as signs for the seasons, days and years. They...

19th Elul : those we could trust have gone away

The days of Elul are falling away and Rosh Hashanah will soon be upon us. On the streets of Jerusalem the pomegranates redden on the...