When we ask G-d for a good year, we call Him "Our Father" (Avinu) and "Our King" (Malkeinu)—because love draws us close, but reverence keeps us going.
Kol Nidrei: Our Father or Our King?
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When we ask G-d for a good year, we call Him "Our Father" (Avinu) and "Our King" (Malkeinu)—because love draws us close, but reverence keeps us going.
The month of Tishrei and all its “honey” symbolism.
In recent years, there has been extensive public discussion about a four day workweek. The idea is no longer merely theoretical, and it raises a deeper question: if technology eventually frees people from the need to work, what will they do with that freedom?
Rosh Hashanah is more than the Day of Judgment. On this day, we come to crown G-d as King over the world, willingly accepting His sovereignty upon ourselves. The story of Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks offers a powerful insight into the meaning of the shofar on this day.
A high school student once told me that in sign language, a Jew is shown as someone with a beard — and that made me wonder: how would you sign “chasid”?
The Torah uses the words Lech Lecha only twice, and both times they define Abraham’s life: leave where you are, and go where you are called.
The discovery of the Altalena, 78 years after it sank, brings an old story of Jewish division and sacrifice back to the surface. Its message speaks directly to Parshat Nitzavim: the strength of the Jewish people comes from standing together, united before G-d.
Human beings have always been fascinated by immortality — not only because we fear death, but because deep down we sense that life is meant to be bigger than the body.
Some promises are passed down from one generation to the next. The mitzvah of tithing teaches us that sometimes we are not simply fulfilling a mitzvah, we are completing a debt that began hundreds of years ago.
Sometimes the Torah asks an entire nation to wait for one person who is still trying to get home.
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