This year’s companion looks at the High Holiday season through the prism of our relationships: with others, with God, and with ourselves. Bring meaning, inspiration, and depth to your holidays and the upcoming year.
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Self & spirituality, Reflection, Teshuvah
In 1933, Rabbi Yisrael Bekmeister (1877-1954) published a twenty-page collection of hasidic tales. The collection included a fascinating tale that speaks to assessing the past year, as we approach the High Holy Days. **** Bekmeister’s slender booklet included fifteen tales…
Self & spirituality, Reflection, Spirituality, Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Yom Kippur
What role does vulnerability play in the Yom Kippur process of teshuvah? In this Yom Kippur-focused episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Dr. Elisha Ancselovits explore how to approach this sacred day following a year marked by deep pain and loss.…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Yom Kippur
This Rosh Hashana podcast is sponsored by Ricki and Dr. David I. Bernstein in memory of Ricki’s parents, Beatrice and Murray Kirschblat z”l, survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, respectively. Beatrice and Murray were each the sole survivors of large families…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana
In this week’s episode, Rabbi Brent Chaim Spodek calls into the studio to speak with our host, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield, about one of the most challenging days of the year, Yom Kippur, and the story of Yonah. Why would Yonah…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Yom Kippur
Derek Kwait on rushing through Selichot year after year without it changing him — and how reframing the service as “cultivating heartbreak” finally opened the door to real teshuvah.
Jewish calendar, Elul, High Holidays, Self & spirituality, Personal transformation, Teshuvah
On Rosh Hashana we sound the shofar during the day and not during the night following the biblical verse that refers to yom teru‘ah (Numbers 29:1) – a day when the horn is sounded. As with other commandments that are…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana
Rabbi Daniel Shibley reflects on why our High Holiday liturgy repeatedly calls on God’s fatherly mercy, drawing on his own new experience of fatherhood to explore the patience, love, and effort at the heart of the father-child—and our—relationship with God.
Jewish calendar, Elul, High Holidays
This Rosh Hashana podcast is sponsored by Ricki and David Bernstein in memory of Ricki’s parents, Beatrice and Murray Kirschblat z”l, survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, respectively. Beatrice and Murray were each the sole survivors of large families which perished…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana, Tanakh, Torah
Rabbi Samuel C. Kaye on the God who is distant and abstract for 355 days a year — and who becomes Avinu Malkeinu, parent and judge, for the ten days of the High Holidays when we need to be held…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays
Dr. Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath offers a set of blessings for the new year of Jewish learning — for more questions, more joy, more dialogue, and blurred lines between our Jewish and everyday selves.
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana
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