InSelf & Spirituality: Hasidut
Prayers of Silence
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…
Jewish Prayer
InSelf & Spirituality: Jewish Prayer
Praying for peace
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…
InSelf & Spirituality: Hasidut
Yom Kippur, Again?!
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.…
InSelf & Spirituality: Jewish Prayer
Executive Learning Seminar 2019: The Secret to Meaningful Prayer
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…
The Tisch: Stretching Out Prayer
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…
InSelf & Spirituality: Jewish Prayer
A Shot of Torah – Pray for Rain
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…
InSelf & Spirituality: Jewish Prayer
This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 1: Rabbi Leon Morris
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…
InSelf & Spirituality: Jewish Prayer
Executive Seminar 2017: Liturgy and Ritual — Case Studies of the Beginning of Rabbinic Judaism
The “Men of the Great Assembly” – a fabled group of leaders who governed the people that returned to Zion, bequeathed to us precious little…
InSelf & Spirituality: Jewish Prayer
A Beginning: Renewing the work of creation
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…
