Rosh Hashanah

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Rupture and Repentance: Joseph and His Brothers

Dr. Bryna J. Levy

This special Rosh Chodesh Elul women's program is jointly sponsored by Torah in Motion and Shaarei Tefillah Congregation. Dr. Bryna J. Levy analyzes the story of Joseph and his brothers for lessons applicable to Rosh Hashanah. To see our flyer…
Audio
Aug 11, 2013

Rupture and Repentance: Joseph and His Brothers

Dr. Bryna J. Levy

This special Rosh Chodesh Elul women's program is jointly sponsored by Torah in Motion and Shaarei Tefillah Congregation.  To see our flyer, click here.
Program
Jul 30, 2013

Yom Kippur: The Month After

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“For the sin we committed by wronging a neighbour, for the sin we committed by bribery, for the sin we committed in our business dealings”. On and on, we list the sins for which we beg forgiveness. And many, perhaps most, of these sins are between…
Article
Sep 25, 2012

Rosh Hashanah: Time to Remember

Rabbi Jay Kelman

David, Karen, and Beca Bookman wish their parents, families, friends, and the Or Chaim Minyan a Happy and Healthy Shana Tova, and a Shana Tova to Rabbi Jay & Ilana Kelman and their family. "Blow the shofar at the [beginning] of the month, when…
Article
Sep 16, 2012

Prayer From the Siddur or Prayer From the Heart?

Rabbi Dov Linzer

Audio
Sep 10, 2012

The Ultimate Sacrifice? A Text-Based Analysis of Akeidat Yitzchak

Dr. Elliott Malamet, Rabbi Dov Linzer

Audio
Sep 10, 2012

Yom Kippur: Seeking G-d

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“Seek out G-d when He can be found, call upon Him when He is near” (Isaiah 55:6). Our Sages interpret this verse as referring to the Aseret Yemei Teshuva, the ten days of repentance, which begin on Rosh Hashanah and end with the conclusion of Yom…
Article
Oct 8, 2011

Preparing to Die, Learning to Live

Dr. Elliott Malamet

  Dear Sir,    Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding the upcoming High Holidays. You want to know why it is that people who have palpably little Jewish involvement for the other 362 days of the calendar bother to attend…
Article
Oct 5, 2011

Rosh Hashanah: From Fear to Hope

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Rosh Hashanah celebrates the coronation of G-d as King of the universe. And having G-d as our King is worthy of celebration. Rosh Hashanah is referred to by the Mishnah as the “Yom Tov of Rosh Hashanah”, something not done for other holidays. We are…
Article
Sep 29, 2011

The Silence of Eternity

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Education, Mark Twain once quipped, consists mainly in what we have unlearned. For a great many Jews today, shul is a kind of ponderous opera, taking place in a foreign tongue, that they desperately wish to unlearn. Depending on the opera house in…
Article
Sep 25, 2011