The Passover Seder night is all about the faculty of speech. We talk, explain, pose questions and offer answers, discuss, and recount the story of our people. Indeed, the Hebrew word for Passover, Pesah, is a portmanteau for peh sah…
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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…
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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.
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Regular prayer, based in the liturgy, is one of the backbones of religious life. It is also one of the great challenges which most people face when the want to connect to God through traditional practice. Through the teachings of…
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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…
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Levi recounts the unique custom of Djerban Jewry to pray for rain as if they were in the Holy Land, and to celebrate the practice by not reciting tahanun, extra supplications that are normally added to the prayer service.
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We’re excited to launch the 3rd series of This Pardes Life. In the first episode, join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield as he explores the challenging issues of prayer in Judaism with Rabbi Leon Morris, President of Pardes. Through the lens of…
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The “Men of the Great Assembly” – a fabled group of leaders who governed the people that returned to Zion, bequeathed to us precious little of their own writings. But early Rabbinic sources credit this group with setting down the…
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The Torah, which we have just begun again this last week, begins “bereshit.” This opening word is often translated as “in the beginning” but we can perhaps more properly read as in a beginning, (rather than in the beginning which…
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Is the service too long for a mi sheberach? In the seventeenth century, the fiery Rabbi Yaakov Emden condemned the additional prayer for the sick as an unnecessary addition to the service. Although he favoured cancelling the practice, he was…
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Pardes was honored to welcome Rabbi Elie Kaunfer to speak on Tuesday, February 9, 2016. He was speaking on the topic of Intertextuality, Sacrifice and Prayer: A Close Look at the End of the Amidah.
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יְדִיד נֶפֶשׁ אָב הָרַחֲמָן. מְשׁוֹךְ עַבְדְךָ אֶל רְצוֹנֶךָ. יָרוּץ עַבְדְּךָ כְּמוֹ אַיָּל. יִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה אֶל מוּל הֲדָרֶךָ. יֶעֱרַב לוֹ יְדִידוֹתֶיךָ מִנּוֹפֶת צוּף וְכָל טָעַם: הָדוּר נָאֶה זִיו הָעוֹלָם. נַפְשִׁי חוֹלַת אַהֲבָתֶךָ. אָנָא אֵל נָא רְפָא נָא לָהּ. בְּהַרְאוֹת לָהּ נוֹעַם…
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