The curling kudu horn is almost as tall as Andrew Epstein. The 8-year-old hefts the burnished horn to his lips and blows. His initial sputtering gives way suddenly to a deep, sonorous blast. Ah, the ...
Laws and customs on hearing shofar blasts; the prohibition of preparing from the first day of Rosh Hashanah to the second day; candles on the second night; order of blessings over the ‘simanim’; God’s ...
How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael Fein/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images It’s the Jewish High ...
(RNS) — When is the shofar service? What time are they blowing the shofar? These are the burning questions at most synagogues this time of year as Rosh Hashana approaches. The answers lead temple ...
The Torah urges us to return to God. One prominent term describes God’s hope that we, the Jewish People, will “lishmo’a b’kolo” (hearken to His voice; Deuteronomy 30:20). The word kol (voice) ...
My grandfather was an atheist, but he always came to High Holidays. To be clear, he was not your run-of-the-mill atheist who goes through life not believing in God and leaving it at that. He was ...
Rav Kook delivered the following sermon in Jerusalem’s Old City on Rosh Hashanah 1933. It was a time of mixed tidings. On the one hand, ominous news of Hitler’s reign in Germany became more troubling ...
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