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Friday, October 14th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, Oct. 9, 2022 “Is this modern-sounding idea—that life without progress is meaningless—really Kohelet’s worldview?” In 1855, Adolph Jellinek (1821–1893) published a commentary on Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) from a late 13th century manuscript in Codex hebr. 32 (henceforth, “Hamburg 32”). The copyist opens the commentary with the words פי’ של ר’ שמואל […]
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Thursday, October 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Gershon Winkler Isranet.org, Oct. 14, 2022 “But my father, he was unconcerned that he and his sukkah could conceivably – at any moment – break loose and crash down into the alleyway below. After all, he had seven special angels surrounding him.” My memory isn’t as great as it used to be, and quite […]
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Friday, October 7th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Multiple Metaphors for God in Shirat Haazinu: Prof. Rabbi Andrea M Weiss, TheTorah.com, Sept. 23, 2014 —Parashat Haazinu tells of a relationship gone awry. According to the poem at the heart of Deuteronomy 32 (referred to as “the Song of Moses” or, after its first word, “Shirat Haazinu”), God established a special relationship […]
Atar Hadari Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 16, 2013 “The festivals of the Jewish year form a chain. Rosh Hashanah is a wake-up call: ten days later, on Yom Kippur, you will be required to account for yourself. And at the end of the long Yom Kippur fast, you are required not to rush off and stuff […]
Dr. Dafna Langgut The Torah.com, Sept. 23, 2021 “The earliest archaeological evidence for the cultivation of the tree outside Persia is in a garden in Ramat Rahel—nowadays part of west Jerusalem but in that period a Persian administrative center near Jerusalem—in a stratum dated to the 5th/4th century B.C.E.” The Torah mentions four plant species in connection […]
Dovid Bashevkin Tablet, Sept. 1, 2021 “Instead of staring at the rubble of my Jewish ideals, promises, and commitments with a crestfallen sorrow exhausted to build again from scratch, a sukkah creates a world meant to be rebuilt, reassembled, and reimagined.” Most Jewish holidays are easy to explain to your non-Jewish colleagues. Many, if […]
Jeremy Rosen Algemeiner, Sept. 23, 2021 “ Our rituals … interlink social morality and responsibility with daily rituals, so that we are constantly reminded of our values and goals.” The ancient festival of Sukkot has numerous elements to it. First is the Sukkah. We value our homes and the security of our little […]
Tuesday, October 4th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Rabbi Steven Bob TheTorah.com, September 2022 “The whole thing is about Nineveh, which is a non-Israelite nation, and there is no mention of Israel at all. There is nothing like this anywhere in the Prophets!” The biblical prophets generally address Israel and speak to the concerns of Israelites.[1] Even the category of prophecy […]
Joshua Berman Times of Israel, Sept. 12, 2021 “But why do biblical figures seemingly resolve their tensions only non-verbally? Why is there nothing akin to “I’m sorry for what I did,” and “I forgive you”?” It’s that time of year when Jews are called upon to express contrition for wrongs done to another, […]
Friday, September 23rd 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Eyes Open, Eyes Shut: Thoughts for Rosh Hashana: Rabbi Marc D. Angel, The Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, September 2022 — Paul Gaugin, the famous 19th century French artist, commented: “When I want to see clearly, I shut my eyes.” He was referring to two different ways of perceiving reality. With our eyes open, […]
Rabbi Shawn Ruby The Torah.com, Sept. 2022 “The term zichron teruah in Leviticus emphasizes how, on this day, Israel wants to make enough noise to get God’s attention, and remind God of the covenant with Israel.” In the Torah, the festival we call Rosh Hashanah (New Year) falls out on the first day of the seventh […]
Ernst Simon Commentary, September 1955 “And so, Judaism begins every new year with this victory of the mother over the institution and its soul-deaf representatives. Hagar the Egyptian, the mother of Ishmael, the ancestor of the Arabs, and Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel, join hands as sisters in maternal suffering and maternal […]
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