by Hanoch Shalev | Sep 28, 2016
Hanoch Shalev Former Shaliach in Melbourne (2003-04) Rosh Hashana Around The Corner – Be Prepared! “If I catch you smoking”, I was warned, “we’ll send you for a week of volunteering at Dr. Ploni’s Oncology Department”. This, I would have thought, is the appropriate...
by Rabbi Yakov Nagen | Sep 28, 2016
Rav Yakov Nagen Ram in Yeshivat Otniel Love Still Stands a Chance The Sefer Yetzirah (Chapter 1, Mishna 1) relates that God created the world with a story. This teaches us that life itself is an ongoing story, and a true story does not end. Five years ago, on...
by Rabbi Yehuda Susman | Oct 21, 2015
Rav Yehuda Susman Former Rosh Kollel in Chicago Currently Rosh Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi Source Sheets Caught Up In the Horns – audio class
by Rabbi Herzl Hefter | Sep 16, 2015
Rav Herzl Hefter Former Rosh Kollel in Cleveland (1995-1997) Source Sheets Pre-Rosh HaShana: Creation Through Language – audio class
by Emanuel Elstein | Sep 10, 2015
Emanuel Elstein Former Shaliach in Washington (2003-4) and Memphis (2010-12) When I was in a summer camp in Memphis, I heard a great line from the local fixit man, who also happened to be a preacher: “If you aim low you have nowhere to go. If you reach...
by Elad Korsia | Jun 30, 2015
“Blow the shofar on the new moon, when [the moon is] concealed, for our festival day; for it is a law for Israel, a ruling of the God of Yaakov.” (Tehillim 81:4) Chazal comment on this pasuk, “Which is the festival on which the moon is concealed?...
by Rabbi Baruch Plaskow | Jun 28, 2015
The time is late; less than two weeks to Rosh Hashanna and many of us are trying to fix our ways and prepare for the important festivals that lie ahead of us. After much painful introspection one is perhaps left with the question, why does G-d allow evil to exist? Why...
by Rabbi Sam Thurgood | Dec 29, 2014
Rav Sam Thurgood Former Rosh Kollel, Cape Town Kollel The Shofar And The Force Of Habit The Rambam famously said, regarding Shofar blowing, in Hilchot Teshuva 3:4 Even though the sounding of the shofar on Rosh HaShanah is a decree, it contains an...
by Itai Klein | Dec 29, 2014
Very soon yet another year is done; We approach the final moment of the year, Twilight of the final day, the final night. In the twilight between one year and another – One picture after another, one vision after another, From the entire year that has passed....
by Ilan Frydman | Dec 29, 2014
When I was very young my teacher explained to me that on Rosh Ha’Shana, Hashem has three books open on his desk: one for Tzadikim who will live; One for Rashlanim who will be sick or die; and one for those who Hashem can’t decide where to write. Then, on Yom Kippur, I...
