Rosh Hashanah

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The Nature of Yom Kippur

Rabbi Reuven Taragin

Audio
Sep 17, 2011

Apples and Honey and Superstition?

Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner

Audio
Sep 17, 2011

Writing Yourself Into the Book of Life

Rabbi Michael Skobac

Audio
Sep 17, 2011

100 Sounds of the Shofar: From Moshe Rabbeinu Until Today

Rabbi Shlomo Gemara

Audio
Sep 17, 2011

Sages and Sinners: A Rabbinic Exploration on Human Righteousness

Rabbi Scot Berman

Audio
Sep 17, 2011

G-d's 13 Midot ha'Rachamim (Attributes of Mercy) - A "Magic Formula" or the "Essence of Prayer"?

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Audio
Sep 17, 2011

We Are All Falling

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Our lives do not follow a straight line. They turn and then turn again. This re-turn (known in Jewish tradition as teshuvah, also translated as repentance) plays out ritually and halakhically in Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.   The two…
Article
Sep 15, 2011

Yom Kippur: Just a Minute

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The death of the righteous atones, our Sages teach, and it is for this reason that during Mussaf of Yom Kippur, just after recounting the special service done in the Temple, we read of the deaths of the “ten martyrs” so cruelly murdered by the…
Article
Sep 18, 2010

Rosh Hashanah: The Right Focus

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“On Rosh Hashanah, it is written; and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed, who shall live and who shall die…” (Machzor). It is doubtful that there is a more powerful, emotional or poignant part of the davening on the yamim noraim than the…
Article
Sep 9, 2010

A Comparative Look at Teshuvah

Rabbi Dr. David Horwitz

Audio
Sep 4, 2010