Rosh Hashanah

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Some Reflections on the year 2020

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“Ezra enacted for the Jewish people that they should read the curses that are recorded in Vayikra before Shavuot and [the curses] of Devarim before Rosh Hashanah. What is the reason? Abaye, and some say…
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Prayer for Rain

Rabbi David Silber

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Aseret Yemi Teshuva: The Freedom to Choose

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“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…
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The Finality of Ne'ilah

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

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

Rabbi Jay Kelman

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

Chazzan Joseph Malovany

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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…
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The Kohen Gadol Drama

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

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

Chazzan Joseph Malovany

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