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Our holy parshanim (commentators) sweeten our festival month of Tishrei, with many drashot, as to the ‘messages’ to be adduced from there being two parshiot read on Shemini Atzeret: first, the ...

The Moadim are a time when we meet with Hashem - either by physically travelling to the Beit HaMikdash or, at least, by being ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Well, not really. And we surely don’t need to be reminded that the first of Tishrei is near at hand. This is not to infer that Tishrei, the seventh month of our lunar cycle and one of major ...

The safe return of Avinatan Ohr, one of the hostages held in Gaza, unfolded in a truly miraculous and pre-ordained manner and ...

(JTA) — For more than five months, the date of Oct. 7 has instantly evoked images of horror in the minds of Israelis as the bloodiest day in the country’s history and the deadliest for Jews since the ...

My rav, Rabbi Binyamin Marwick, gave an inspiring talk on Yom Kippur at our shul, Cong. Shomrei Emunah in Baltimore. “Three mountain climbers,” he said, “died on a daunting 14,000-foot mountain in ...

The pessimist opens up the newspaper, sighs and says, “Oy. It can’t get any worse than this.” The optimist replies, “Oh — yes it can.” The world feels like it is on fire. But I feel like the world has ...