Daily Kavanah – Monday, November 11, 2024
Today is Veterans Day, established by Congress in 1954 to pay tribute to members of the United States Armed services, but, Veterans Day [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, November 8, 2024
According to some traditions, there are 600,000 letters in the Torah, corresponding to the number mentioned in the book of Exodus of male Israelites [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, November 7, 2024
וְאֶֽעֶשְׂךָ֙ לְג֣וֹי גָּד֔וֹל וַאֲבָ֣רֶכְךָ֔ וַאֲגַדְּלָ֖ה שְׁמֶ֑ךָ וֶהְיֵ֖ה בְּרָכָֽה׃ I will make of you a great nation! And I will bless you and [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wedneday, November 6, 2024
Every election brings results that include outcomes we desired as well as those we hadn’t hoped for. I know, having already heard from [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, November 5, 2024
In October of 2016, Rabbi David Zvi Kalman composed a prayer for voting—to be read alongside the Prayer for the United States [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, November 4, 2024
If Fiddler on the Roof granted us perhaps the most well-known prayer for the government, the first one dates back to the prophet Jeremiah in [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Parashat vayera ends with the puzzling tale of the akedah, the binding of Isaac. After God commands him to sacrifice his son, Abraham journeys to [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, November 1, 2024
I remember, decades ago, when I was learning how to type on an actual typewriter as part of our middle school required [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, October 31, 2024
Scholars have identified 12 Psalms, two of which appear in the Psalms of the Day, as a collection of the Psalms of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, October 30, 2024
While there is no official “Hump Day” in the weekly Shabbat cycle, Wednesday is—according to Hasidic tradition at least—a bit of a turning [...]