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Rosh Hashanah 5762 - September 17, 2001
Terror and Tragedy
Light by Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, Silence by Dr. Tali Lowenthal, Face to Face by Tzvi Freeman, The Jewish Approach to Tragedy by Rabbi Dov Wagner
Light by Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, Silence by Dr. Tali Lowenthal, Face to Face by Tzvi Freeman, The Jewish Approach to Tragedy by Rabbi Dov Wagner
The 48-Hour Brain
Once you get inside the brain, you can do just about anything. You can waken memories, restore lapsed talents, alleviate fears, magnify joys, abolish prejudices, stimulate interest and charge up motivation. You can basically re-program you life -- at least for a year
Once you get inside the brain, you can do just about anything. You can waken memories, restore lapsed talents, alleviate fears, magnify joys, abolish prejudices, stimulate interest and charge up motivation. You can basically re-program you life -- at least for a year
Story
The Master Key
Finally, the great moment arrived. It was the morning of Rosh Hashanah, and Rabbi Ze’ev stood on the reading platform in the center of the Baal Shem Tov’s synagogue amidst the Torah scrolls, surrounded by a sea of tallit-draped bodies.
Finally, the great moment arrived. It was the morning of Rosh Hashanah, and Rabbi Ze’ev stood on the reading platform in the center of the Baal Shem Tov’s synagogue amidst the Torah scrolls, surrounded by a sea of tallit-draped bodies.
Parenting
Good and Sweet
I explained that in Jewish tradition, before Rosh Hashanah, we wish each other "a good and sweet year." Why the double expression? Because we believe everything that G-d gives to us is good. But there are two forms of "good" -- sweet and bitter.
I explained that in Jewish tradition, before Rosh Hashanah, we wish each other "a good and sweet year." Why the double expression? Because we believe everything that G-d gives to us is good. But there are two forms of "good" -- sweet and bitter.
The Waking of Creation
The Kabbalists describe a cosmic drama which repeats itself each year, as the world "falls asleep" on the eve of Rosh Hashanah and is "awakened" the following morning by the sound of the shofar.
The Kabbalists describe a cosmic drama which repeats itself each year, as the world "falls asleep" on the eve of Rosh Hashanah and is "awakened" the following morning by the sound of the shofar.
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, all things revert to their primordial state. The Inner Will ascends and is retracted into the Divine Essence; the worlds are in a state of sleep and are sustained only by the Outer Will. The service of man on Rosh Hashanah is to rebuild the Divine attribute of Sovereignty and reawaken the Divine desire for creation with the sounding of the shofar.
— The Kabbalistic masters
Print Magazine
It’s G-d’s world. Everything He gives is good, the sweetest good.
But it is often a good far too great for us to understand. We imagine it is not good, because that’s the only way to make sense of it with our small minds.
Yet the truth is, He gives us all the good we can handle. If we could take more, He would g...
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