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Thursday, September 14th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
SHABBAT READING Akeda and Rosh Hashanah: Invoking the Original Oath God Was Forced to Make: Prof. Rabbi David R. Blumenthal, The Torah.com, Sept. 14, 2023 The rabbis link the Akeda with forgiveness of sins for the Jewish people (Bereishit Rabba56:10, taken up in many selichot): Rabbi Bibi the Great said in the name of Rabbi Yochanan: Abraham said […]
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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, […]
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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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