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For many years, students were introduced to the study of Talmud with Eilu Metziot, the second chapter of masechet Bava Metzia, focusing on the mitzvah of hashavat aveidah, returning lost objects. Beyond the technical details of this mitzvah, Talmud…
For seven days a year, one is to “make his home temporary and his Sukkah permanent”. Ideally, we move our finest furniture, china, and even our bedroom set into the Sukkah, our “fall home”. While our modern-day living habits…
As important (if not more so) as what one says is how it is said, when it is said, and what is not said. This is equally true regarding both our interactions with other people and our religious texts. Form is as important as substance. So much of…
“We work and get reward and they work and do not get reward?” This statement, said when one completes a Talmudic tractate, articulates a fundamental difference between a “religious” approach to life and a “secular…
“In a place where ba’alei teshuva stand there, not even the fully righteous can stand” (Brachot 34b). This teaching is generally understood to mean that penitents are on a higher level than the fully righteous. The underlying…
Man has a tremendous capacity for self-deception. We easily see faults in others; somehow, we miss them in ourselves. Teshuva, repentance, can begin only when we are honest with ourselves and admit that we have made mistakes. While we…
The Yamim Noraim of the year 70 must have been quite traumatic. The Temple had been destroyed less than two months earlier and thousands lay dead, with many others exiled. Never in anyone’s lifetime had there been such a disruption to the…
Thursday September 17
8:30pm Eastern TimeShofar and Shabbat: The Sounds of Silence
Thursday September 24
8:30pm Eastern TimeYom Kippur: The Sounds of Teshuva
Thursday October 1
8:30pm Eastern TimeSukkot: The Sounds of Joy
Thursday October 8…
September 23: A Guide to the Machzor: Explorating the Central Motifs of the Yom Kippur Mussaf Service.
September 30: The Spiritual Journey of Hoshanot
October 7: Prayer for Rain
September 24
ספר יונה: ספר יונה מוקדש כולו לרעיון התשובה. בשיעור נעמוד על שני השאלות המרכזיות בנושא התשובה שאיתם מתמודד הספר, תוך ניתוח ספר יונה מתוך פשוטו של מקרא.
Today's shiur is sponsored by Eliakim and Esther Katz in memory of Esther’s…