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
A 1907 collection of hasidic tales by Rabbi Yisrael Berger (1855-1919), Eser Orot, offered a bevy of tales about Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdyczów (1740-1809). Rabbi Berger was one of the key transmitters of hasidic tales, publishing a tetralogy that…
Self & spirituality, Reflection, Spirituality
Likkutei Tefillot is one of the fascinating books in the hasidic library. Written by Rabbi Natan Sternhartz of Nemirov (1780-1844), it does not fit neatly in the classic genres of hasidic writing. The work, as we have it today, is…
Self & spirituality, Jewish prayer, Reflection, Spirituality
Originally published June 18, 2015, with the conclusion of the 2022-2023 academic year, we’ve decided to bring this article back as a reminder to all of us that the Torah learning goes on. Who’s Carrying the Torah? The noisy din…
Self & spirituality, Personal transformation, Reflection, Spirituality, Tanakh, Torah
Wrapping up the school year is an important part of the flow of the school year. This google doc gives practical help and ideas that you can use and is broken down into three separate goals/purposes, any two or all…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Pedagogy of facilitation, Self & spirituality, Reflection
Wrapping up the school year – ONLINE EDITION Wrapping up the school year is an important part of the flow of the school year. This year it will happen very differently from others. This Google Doc gives practical help and…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Pedagogy of facilitation, Self & spirituality, Reflection
Contributor: Elana Rothenberg, Pardes Day School Educators Program ’16-’18 Taking exercise breaks has been really important. I ask the students, at various points in the lesson, to open an exercise link, video yourself doing the exercises, and then send me…
Self & spirituality, Personal transformation, Reflection
This article was originally published in the Israel Edition of HaMizrachi Newsletter, v. 2 issue 4. You can download the full version by clicking here. Below you will find Rabbi Levi Cooper’s take on Yom Kippur.
Self & spirituality, Hasidut, Jewish prayer, Reflection, Teshuvah, Jewish calendar
The attached chapter, entitled “Halakhah” and written by Rabbi Levi Cooper is available as part of a new textbook that discusses thirteen different sources for the study of Hasidism: derashot, stories, writings of mitnaggedim, writings of maskilim, newspapers, archives, music,…
Self & spirituality, Hasidut, Personal transformation, Reflection, Spirituality
This originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post Magazine online on May 16, 2018. The starting time for a “Jewish” day can be described by three stages of light: Alot Hashahar, Misheyakir, and Hanetz Hahama. Alot Hashahar refers to dawn when…
Self & spirituality, Hasidut, Jewish prayer, Reflection, Tanakh, Ketuvim (Writings)
In our day and age, meaningful interaction has been replaced by sound bites, buzz words and emojis that create pseudo or “virtual” relationships. Here Tovah Leah Nachmani and Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield discuss the Jewish take on meaningful relationships to self,…
Self & spirituality, Personal transformation, Reflection
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