by blogmaster | Oct 5, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Holidays
In the 1st paragraph of Unetanneh Tokef it is stated “”Let us now relate the power of this day’s holiness, for it is awesome and frightening. On it Your Kingship will be exalted; Your throne will be firmed with kindness and You will sit upon it in truth....
by blogmaster | Sep 28, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Holidays
IS REDEMPTION POSSIBLE? A HASIDIC TALE OF Y.L. PERETZ Sermon for Yom Kippur 2017 | Lenny Levin Gemar chatima tova—may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year. On Rosh Hashanah I promised you a story on a prayer in the early part of the service. Today I want...
by blogmaster | Sep 27, 2017 | Divrei Torah
It may come as a surprise to you, after the many hours you have spent over the years sitting in services for Rosh Hashana, that the Torah proscribes only 2 things you need to do to observe this holy day— 1) you should not work; and 2) you should hear the sounds of the...
by blogmaster | Sep 27, 2017 | Divrei Torah
SEEING GOD’S CREATIVE POWER IN THE ECLIPSE Sermon for Rosh Hashanah 2017 | Lenny Levin Chag sameach. If we were celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Second Temple or Mishnaic times, 1900 or 2000 years ago, the day for the holiday would have been set by a rabbinic court...
by blogmaster | Sep 27, 2017 | Divrei Torah
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or Maimononides offers an explanation of why we blow the shofar. It is interesting that there was a need by the Rabbis to explain this mitzvah since many of the 613 mitzvot are regarded by our sages as commandments not to be interpreted. Rather...