Rosh Hashanah

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Rosh Hashanah: Time for Change

Rabbi Jay Kelman

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…
Article
Sep 18, 2020

Shofar and Shabbat: The Sounds of Silence - Shofar and Shabbat: The Sounds of Silence

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Sep 18, 2020

Interpreting Prayer through Nusach HaTefillah (Part 2) -Rosh Hashanah

Chazzan Joseph Malovany

Audio
Sep 17, 2020

Some Thoughts on This Year's Yamim Noraim

Rabbi Jay Kelman

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…
Article
Sep 16, 2020

The Kohen Gadol Drama

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

Audio
Sep 15, 2020

Interpreting Prayer through Nusach HaTefillah (Part 1) -Selichot and Rosh Hashanah

Chazzan Joseph Malovany

Audio
Sep 9, 2020

A Different Voice? Women and Shofar in a Time of Pandemic

Yoetzet Halacha Laurie Novick

Audio
Sep 7, 2020

The Sounds of Tishrei

Rabbi Jay Kelman

  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…
Program
Sep 4, 2020

Aseret Yemi Teshuva: I Confess

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Integral to the teshuva process is the act of vidui, confession. One can intellectually know one has done something wrong; one can even feel terrible about it. But unless and until one verbalizes that one has sinned—and for sins against…
Article
Oct 6, 2019

Rosh Hashanah: Early, Late or Just Right

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"And on the seventh month on the first day of the month, it shall be a day of rest. It is a sacred day for remembrance and blowing" (Vayikra 23:24). What the Torah calls a day of blowing (of the ram's horn) is more commonly known as Rosh Hashanah,…
Article
Sep 28, 2019