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Do Women Have the Obligation to Hear the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah?
Rosh Hashanah marks the new year and the day of judgment…
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3 Ways to Co-Create Your New Year
Elul is here, and the eagerness to welcome the New Year is filling the air. Besides the sense of newness that “nature” so graciously gives us, including changing leaves, a crisp, cool breeze to break the summer heat, and for many, starting back in school and the post-summer grind, we also benefit from the palpable…
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Malchut: Revealing the Feminine Energy on Rosh Hashanah
Malchut is the highest of the ten sefirot…
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Rosh Hashanah: The Deeper Meaning of the Shofar
There are multiple reasons for why we blow the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah. One idea is that just as when we coronate a king we blow trumpets, so too on Rosh Hashanah, we crown Hashem as king and therefore we blow the shofar. When a king wants to warn his people of a decree, he…
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Comparing the Joy of Tu B’Av and Yom Kippur
The 55 days between Tu B’av and Yom Kippur are supposed to be preparation, working on how to connect to our Spouse in Heaven better. Working on re-igniting the love. Working on coming closer and recovering from the month of distance we have had. The gematria of the word kalla, bride, is 55. And the…
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The Halachot of Tisha B’Av
Many terrible tragedies befell the Jewish people on this day, from the destruction of both our Batei Mikdash…
