Daily Kavanah – Monday, October 5, 2020
וְשָׂמַחְתָּ֖ בְּחַגֶּ֑ךָ… וְהָיִ֖יתָ אַ֥ךְ שָׂמֵֽחַ׃ You shall rejoice in your festival…and you shall have nothing but joy! (Deuteronomy 16:14-15) Sukkot is considered by [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, October 2, 2020
While the past seven months have been wrought with many struggles, we have also received some great blessings from spending more time at [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, October 1, 2020
We read Psalm 27 daily for fifty days straight, from the beginning of the month of Elul through the end of Sukkot. By [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, September 30, 2020
As we lead up to the holiday of Sukkot, one where we normally enjoy large gatherings for eight days in a row, we [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, September 29, 2020
During this time of year from Elul through Sukkot, it is customary to read or sing the words of Psalm 27. Why, of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 25, 2020
When there was a cholera epidemic in 1848, Rabbi Israel Salanter posted announcements on all the houses of prayer of Vilna on the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, September 24, 2020
Rabbi Eleazar taught: it is often the case that when a person insults another in public and after a time wishes to be [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Every person is given free will. If we wish to turn to the good, to the way of the righteous, we have the [...]
Changing the world on Sukkot
The Shelter of the Sukkah by Rabbi Ron Stern For more than 2,500 years Jews have been gathering for Sukkot. Whether at the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, September 22, 2020
One year before Yom Kippur, the great sage Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk sat in his study, worrying. “How shall I face God on [...]