Sep 20, 202225th Elul :When we help the poor we help ourselvesWhen we help the poor, we help ourselves לי = לאביונים One day, a Rabbi announced an event under the infamous name "Shabbat for the...
Sep 19, 202224th 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...
Sep 19, 202223rd 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...
Sep 19, 202222nd Elul The Selichot of Library Books22 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...
Sep 19, 202221st Elul - nothing is so precious as timeYom 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...