The sound of the shofar at Rosh Hashanah, the great 12th-century Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides wrote, is a wake-up call for the soul. Its message: "Arise from your slumber! Search your ways and ...

This coming Shabbat is one of the two most holy in the Jewish year. It is called Shabbat Teshuvah. The other is the Shabbat just prior to Passover called Shabbat Hagadol (the Great Shabbat). The ...

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Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook explains that teshuvah does not deal with a specific wrong. Rather, it relates to a general feeling of despondency and estrangement from God. Teshuvah means a ...

I. On Rosh Hashanah "the mitzvah of the day is with the shofar". Our master the Baal Shem Tov has a parable relating to the blowing of the shofar, comparing it to a child crying out: "Father! Father!

In Likutey Moharan (I:6), Rebbe Nachman of Breslov tells us something astounding: “The true sign of a person who has returned to G-d is that they can hear themselves be insulted and remain silent.

California is on fire, the east coast is drowning, the virus isn’t done with us, and the nice lady who lives by the freeway has been joined by dozens of friends as the eviction moratorium comes to an ...