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Read MoreWhile on tour in South Koreah, Rabbi Mordechai Becher explained the importance of learning with a chevruta - a learning partner - and how even when someone is learning without another person, they can still be learning with multiple people. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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This week we will be celebrating the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar, Elul. The concepts and lessons contained in the Jewish calendar are so central to our belief that it is necessary to teach and emphasize them regularly. One of the ways in which Jewish tradition makes us aware of the cycle of the calendar and brings home its messages is by celebrating every new moon, ...
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This coming Shabbat the month of Ellul begins, which heralds the approach of Rosh HaShanah. It is customary amongst Sephardic communities to begin early morning Selichot (special prayers of repentance) at the beginning of Ellul and continue until just before Yom Kippur. Ashkenazi Jews start these prayers a few days before Rosh Hashanah, but have a custom to blow the shofar every morning after the morning service during this month. ...
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Read More“You are children of the L-rd your G-d; do not cut yourselves or pluck out hair between your eyes for the dead” (Deuteronomy 14:1). Nachmanides notes that the introduction to the laws forbidding excess mourning for the dead is the statement “You are children of G-d.” He maintains that this teaches us that we are, in essence, spiritual beings, and that the soul does not die, only the body. Therefore, ...
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