The Omer is counted for the final time on the 49th night. The following evening, the festival of Shavuot begins at sundown. Shavuot is the anniversary of the Revelation on Mount Sinai, when God communicated the Torah to the entire Jewish people and in so doing, revealed to them their national mission and purpose. In…
This coming Sunday is the 28th of Iyar, the day when Jerusalem’s Old City and the Western came back into Jewish hands during the 1967, Six Day War, and it is also the date of the anniversary of the death (yahrzeit) of the prophet Samuel. The Jewish people have a special relationship with the entire…
The punishments with which we are threatened for disobeying G-d take up twice as many passages as the blessings promised us for observance. Why? View this video directly on Vimeo.
The Thinnest Connection Rabbi Mordechai Becher speaks about how G-d’s covenant with the Jewish people needs some connection from the Jewish people to G-d. However, the thread of connection can be very thin indeed and G-d will still remember us. View this video directly on VIMEO You can sponsor Rabbi Becher’s VLog this week or…