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Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish Year. It’s also one of the happiest. Yom Kippur is like the Shabbat, in that it’s a day of rest and no work is done on this day – but Yom Kippur is unique in that we also refrain from a variety of additional physical activities – Why is that? in this video Eliav Friedman, MSW shares 5 of the activities that we don’t do on this holy day and why…
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Elul the month before Rosh Hashanah on the Jewish Calendar is a time for Self Reflection and Teshuva (Repentance) as[…]
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Judging others is something we always try to avoid – Yet, here we are the Jewish people celebrating a Holiday called “Rosh Hashanah” which is in essence, Judegement day, the day the world is judged by God Himself. So why the celebration and happiness? Eliav Friedman, MSW, shares an insight on our approach to Judgement day.
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Watch as hundreds gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, after midnight, for the prayers of repentance (The Sephardic Selichot) before the upcoming Jewish High Holidays.. Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur…
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The 33 days between Passover and Lag Ba’Omer, are days which have some aspects of mourning. We don’t listen to music, shave, cut hair or have celebrations. The question that’s asked is, why are these weeks treated differently than other national tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people? Rabbi Ari Enkin shares
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The Jews have an obligation to wipe out the Amalekites off the face of the earth. Who are the Amalekites today? How do we fight and win this battle? As the Jewish Holiday of Purim approaches, Rav Burg shares an insight into this ongoing war against Amalek.
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The Jews have an obligation to wipe out the Amalekites off the face of the earth. Who are the Amalekites today? How do we fight and win this battle? As the Jewish Holiday of Purim approaches, Rav Burg shares an insight into this ongoing war against Amalek.
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How does the story of Chanukah relate to me? We are not fighting the ancient Greeks anymore. If the destruction of the temple, the contaminated oil and the whole battle that they went through is all part of the Jewish Story, then how do connect to that? In Judaism Holidays are not just meant to commemorate, but we’re meant to somehow relive it.
Rabbi Yitzchak Botton shares an insight into how we can relate to the story of Chanuka even today.
A true story that happened on the Chanukah Holiday in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The Grand Rabbi, the Bobover Rebbe risked his life to light the Chanukah candles for the Jews in his camp. On the first night, as he was about to say the 3rd blessing of ‘Shehechiyanu’, he hesitated. Later the people asked him what was this hesitation all about? Rabbi Aaron Pessin shares the story and lesson that we can learn from it
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