Is it possible to do all your reflections about the previous year on a single day? And on a day when you do not even eat due to all the sins you committed? Of course not, according to the Jewish ...
It’s no secret to my family and friends that I have a deep passion for teaching, that I especially love teaching young students, and that my number one go-to topic is the wisdom and brilliance of ...
Abraham Joshua Heschel published The Earth Is the Lord’s in 1949. In his preface, he writes that, “The story about the life of the Jews in Eastern Europe which has come to an end in our days is what I ...
We are in the midst of the 40-day period of teshuva, when we work to “return” to the better angels of our nature through intensified self-reflection. The process began on the first of Elul and extends ...