For over forty years I have been teaching the deeper significance of the amazing Redemption process of our times and the writings of Rabbi Kook in the English- Division of the Machon Meir Yeshiva in ...

On Simchat Torah, we were at a synagogue in Florida, and at the kiddish, the Rabbi was saying how the holiday is to celebrate the Torah—finishing one cycle of reading and learning it and immediately ...

What would you do if invited to participate in the unrolling of a 100-foot Torah scroll and an Israeli-style dinner at a synagogue? Don't know about you, but I eagerly accepted the invitation from ...

The Sukkot holiday is about to end, but this festival comes with some quirks unique within Judaism. The last day of the week-long festival is marked by a day known as Hoshana Raba, that has more in ...

The first word in our portion re’eh is one of the most powerful terms found in the Torah. In fact, God is described as a ro’eh on three different levels. The first time the word is found in the Torah, ...

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