On Naming, Renaming, and Being Seen: VaYishlach 57850
On Naming, Renaming, and Being Seen VaYishlach 57850 Global CEO of IsraAID, Yotam Polizer December 13, 2024 | 12 Kislev, 5785 Your [...]
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 – 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 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, October 29, 2024
There is a tradition in many Orthodox communities to hold weddings on Tuesdays, the third day of the Jewish week. In the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, October 28, 2024
According to the Mishnah, our 3rd century compendium that records much of the history of the Temple Service, the Levites—part of the [...]
Kiss Joy As It Flies: Sukkot 5785
Between Justice and Mercy: Questions for the 10 Days of RepentanceRabbi Sari LauferOctober 18, 2024 | 16 Tishrei, 5785Your browser does not [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, October 7, 2024
Of all of the post-October 7 Israeli poetry I have had the honor of reading in these brutal 12 months, perhaps none has [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, October 3, 2024
With the New Year beginning this week, we’ll take a deeper look at one of its most distinctive symbols and sounds: the shofar.In [...]