Yom Kippur and Sukkot: Reflection and Connection
Yom Kippur and Sukkot: Reflection and Connection

Encounters | Mrs. Shaindel Fink Print this article

Yom Kippur 5785
Yom Kippur 5785

This coming Shabbat is Yom Kippur! Instead of enjoying the traditional Shabbat dinner with our families with all their requisite delicacies and treats, we will instead be in shul, praying and fasting for forgiveness for our sins. Indeed, Yom Kippur is the only fast day important enough to override the Shabbat requirement of – ענג

The Ten Days of Teshuva 5785
The Ten Days of Teshuva 5785

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 2nd at sundown, Rosh Hashana 5785 will begin. Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur comprise ten days which are called עשרת ימי תשובה  – The Ten Days of Teshuva. Maimonides writes: (The Laws of Teshuva Chapter 3)based on a teaching in the Talmud. כל שנה ושנה שוקלין עונות כל אחד ואחד מבאי

Tamuz: Avinu Malkeinu
Tamuz: Avinu Malkeinu

Rosh Chodesh Lecture Series | Rabbi Chaim Fink Print this article

Wash Your Hands Before Rosh Hashanah Please!<br>Parshas Nitzavim Vayeilech 5784/Rosh Hashana 5785
Wash Your Hands Before Rosh Hashanah Please!<br>Parshas Nitzavim Vayeilech 5784/Rosh Hashana 5785

Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis may go down in history as the most frustrated and frustrating doctor in history, but he certainly will also be remembered as the doctor that saved millions of mothers and infants. Born to a prosperous Jewish family in Buda, Hungary that ran a wholesale business in spices and consumer goods, Ignaz was

Rosh Hashana 5785
Rosh Hashana 5785

When the Torah commands us to observe the festival of Pesach, it tells us clearly that it celebrates our freedom from slavery in Egypt. When the Torah commands us to observe the festival of Sukkot, it clearly tells us that it celebrates the protection that Hashem provided us throughout the forty years in the wilderness.

Yom Kippur and Sukkot: Reflection and Connection
Yom Kippur and Sukkot: Reflection and Connection
Yom Kippur 5785
Yom Kippur 5785
The Ten Days of Teshuva 5785
The Ten Days of Teshuva 5785
Tamuz: Avinu Malkeinu
Tamuz: Avinu Malkeinu
Wash Your Hands Before Rosh Hashanah Please!&lt;br>Parshas Nitzavim Vayeilech 5784/Rosh Hashana 5785
Wash Your Hands Before Rosh Hashanah Please!<br>Parshas Nitzavim Vayeilech 5784/Rosh Hashana 5785
Rosh Hashana 5785
Rosh Hashana 5785
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