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Friday, October 11th 2024
SHABBAT READING Jonah Leaves Us with Questions, So on Yom Kippur We End with Micah: Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler, The Torah.com, Oct. 8, 2024 — The book of Jonah is a remarkable four-scene[1] story that is both absurd and sublime.[2] The tradition of reading Jonah during the afternoon service, for many the centerpiece of the day, goes back, at […]
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Friday, October 11th 2024 / Friday, October 11th 2024
Helen Plotkin Tablet, Sept. 3, 2013 “For 10 days we live with excruciating awareness of the fact that our stories will include suffering, without any promise that we will be comforted. On Yom Kippur we give ourselves over completely to this truth.” On the High Holidays, we read a poem known by its first two […]
Dror Eydar Israel Hayom, Oct. 11, 2024 “All of this relates to repairing our relationship with God, which is, in essence, a repair of our relationship with ourselves.” 1. Recently, a wise and beautiful woman confided in me that Yom Kippur, for her, is a frightening and sad day. “I tremble at the memory of the […]
Abraham Cooper The Media Line, Oct. 11, 2024 “How in God’s name was it possible to deny on October 8 what the world witnessed on October 7? Where did Hamas learn such a strategy, and to what end? The roots of this denial trace back to the last century, to history’s greatest crime—the Holocaust. For […]
Moshe Halbertal Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2011 “The juxtaposition of law and narrative is a characteristic and important feature of the Talmud. After discussing the formal requirements for requesting forgiveness, the Talmud presents four brief stories of encounters in which rabbinic masters attempt to reconcile with those they have injured.” Near the […]
Friday, September 22nd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
SHABBAT READING Crimson to White: Yom Kippur’s Miraculous Thread: Dr. Rabbi Joshua Kulp, The Torah.com, Sept. 21, 2023 — Leviticus (ch. 16) describes a Yom Kippur ritual, known as the scapegoat, in which a goat is chosen by lottery to bear Israel’s iniquities, and is then sent into the wilderness as a way of […]
Tuesday, October 4th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Guide for the Perplexed, 2022: Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report, Sept. 29, 2022 — Yom Kippur is observed on the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tishrei (October 5, 2022), a Super Sabbath (Shabbat Shabbaton in Hebrew), concluding 10 days of soul-searching and spiritual self-awareness and self-enhancement, which begins on Rosh Hashanah, […]
Rokhl Kafrissen Tablet, Sept. 30, 2022 “The first recording I heard of this song was this intense, urgent version that had instrumentation like sirens, fast strumming, and the singing sounded so desperate. And the lyrics themselves have felt more and more relevant the older I’ve gotten as antisemitism has been rising around the U.S.” […]
Daniel Gordis Substack, Oct. 2, 2022. “The return of existential vulnerability which the Six Day War had seemed to banish forever, the reversion to the fear and worry that Israelis thought they’d never feel again, left them shattered.” There’s something strange about Israeli TV before Yom Kippur. Before Passover, there is a lot […]
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