Search results
13 hours ago · And Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, took on added meaning this year as a day of communal reflection and repentance for the failures that led up to October 7, the failures of October 7, and the ...
13 hours ago · Sukkot is followed immediately by Simchat Torah. My short prayer: May that day – now tainted by the pogrom of October 7 – be restored to one of unadulterated, pure joy for the Jewish people in ...
13 hours ago · OCTOBER 7 shifted the magnitude of honoring life and death or good and bad for these rabbis; it shifted the way they view liturgy, too. Classic prayers and rituals for the High Holy Days, for ...
13 hours ago · Oct 16, 2024 9:35 am IDT. Arguably the most obscure of Jewish customs is the gathering of the "four species" - a closed date frond, some myrtle boughs and a few willow twigs and shaking them vigorously together with a citron fruit on Sukkot. The ritual is typically performed during the entire week of Sukkot as a part of the daily prayer service.
13 hours ago · The seventh day of the holiday is known as Hoshanah Rabbah. This is the day when our fates for the coming year—which were signed on Rosh Hashanah and sealed on Yom Kippur—are finalized. On this day, we circle the bimah seven times. We also say a short prayer and strike the ground five times with bundles of five willows (also known as Hoshanot)
13 hours ago · These remarks were delivered as a sermon on the morning of Yom Kippur, October 12th, 2024, at Westchester Reform Temple, Scarsdale, New York. Never in my life have these Days of Awe so lived up to ...
13 hours ago · For centuries, Jews have symbolically invited the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to their sukkahs. More recently, many have made a custom of inviting Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, too.
