The Haftorah for Parashat Shemot, drawn from Isaiah 27:6-28:13 and 29:22-23 (according to the Ashkenazic custom), mirrors in a profound way the Parasha itself. If the opening chapters of Shemot tell ...
Rabbi Herbert Brockman issues a Days of Awe reminder about the futility of war. This column will appear as the Jewish community is in the midst of its holy day period known as the “High Holidays.” It ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — In Jewish congregations around the world, Rosh Hashana will be celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 23. This year, at Congregation Agudas Achim, the annual High Holy Day new year’s ...
How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
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How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael Fein/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images It’s the Jewish High ...
At sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, Jews around the world will gather to mark Rosh Hashanah — the birthday of creation, the day on which we acknowledge our past and pray for our future. This year, as we ...
Home Life The young Israeli giving the shofar a new voice Life The young Israeli giving the shofar a new voice Bar Zemach, the first known musician to play the shofar chromatically, on how he was ...
The Mishnah, in the third chapter of Masechet Rosh Hashanah, presents the following scenario: It’s Rosh Hashanah, and, shofar in hand, you’re out for a walk. You come across some fellow Jews who are ...
(JTA) For the first time since Ukraine was plunged into war in 2022, soldiers on the front lines could hear the blast of the shofar marking the Jewish new year. The largest Jewish communal body in the ...
We in Israel heard so many sirens this year, but now comes the clear and simple sound of the shofar. This is another annual siren- a positive and good one. Shofar - is derived from the word ...
We are God’s stake in human history, and we could not make a greater mistake than to believe that we could ever be a nation like other nations. To believe that is to commit spiritual suicide. When ...
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