A prime feature of the Yom Kippur service is recitation of the 44 mistakes known as “Al Chet.” That’s a long list. What does it all really mean? ..
Written by Whitefield Times
Yom Kippur 5768 (2007) Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year. For 25 hours we live on the level of angels. We don’t eat or drink. We dress in white. We pray ..
Written by Tal Segal
During the afternoon Mincha services, we read the entire Book of Jonah, which teaches us that you can’t run away from Hashem, and that Hashem always accepts ..
Written by Whitefield Times
One of the well known prohibitions of Yom Kippur is that one should refrain from wearing leather shoes. At first glance, one would assume that the simple reason ..
Written by Rabbi Pini Cohen
Saw this idea in \’Torah thought for a day\’ – Shemos. (recommended!!) Moshe is told to remove his shoes as he will be walking on holy ground. ..
Written by Lloyd Schroeder
G-d says: “Pave a road, Pave a road, clear a path, lift up the obstacle from the path of My people (Isaiah 57;14) Yom Kippur is a day of haftoros. At Mincha ..
Written by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag
The Darkei Mussar writes that the reason why HaShem gives people yissurim in their old age is because when one gets old, he no longer has the strength to do a Teshuva ..
Written by Moshe Kormornick
For on this day (Yom Kippur) He will forgive you, to purify you; that you will be purified from all your sins before God (VaYikra 16:30). Why is the purification ..
Written by Howard Jackson
Rosh Hashana, the time where Hashem calls upon us to communally do Teshuva! This Rosh Hashana we can all do complete Teshuva!! But how do we do complete Teshuva?? ..
Written by B Rose
At the end of VaYechi we read that the exile in Egypt will end when “Pakod Yifkod”, “God will surely redeem” (Bereishit 50:24). These would ..
Written by Howard Jackson