The universal message of Yom Kippur According to the Talmudic sages, Chapter 19 of the biblical book of Leviticus is one in which most of...

Reflections for the Jewish New Year 5785

Reflections for the Jewish New Year 5784 Rosh Hashanah is a holy day that for Jews epitomizes fundamental aspects of our faith...

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Yom Kippur 5783 / 2022 Chapter 16 of Leviticus describes the rituals that the High Priest had to perform on the day of Atonement in order...

Rosh Hashanah 5783 Fratelli tutti is the encyclical that better presents the core of France’s thought. I remember the passion that he...

Understanding the meaning of the plagues that God sent upon the Egyptians In Exodus 13:8, the Bible instructs the Hebrew people to...

Reflections for Yom Kippur 5782 According to the text of Leviticus 16:30 there is a day on the Hebrew calendar on which God helps the...

Reflections on the Beginning of the New Jewish Year 5782 On the first two days of the Jewish month of Tischrei, which this year falls on...

This year’s Shavuot will be remembered by all Jews as the one in which the State of Israel faced a cunning attack by the terrorist...

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This will be a different Rosh Hashanah for the Jewish people. In the past, there have been years when some of our people were able to...

Shavuot is called a harvest festival in the Torah, since it happens at the beginning of the harvest of the most precious grain: wheat...

One of the most important moments of the Jewish tradition is the ritual supper that every family must observe on the night of the first...

The faith of the people on the occasion of their departure from Egypt, the foundational event of Israel, has two aspects. On the one...

On the one hand, the Torah refers to Yom Kippur as a day of self-denial (Leviticus 16:29,31; 23:27,32; Numbers 29:7), and, on the other...

There are two essential concepts at the heart of the holyday of Rosh Hashana: Judgment and Re-creation. At the beginning of each new...

According to Jewish tradition, the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem, like the second, occurred on the same day, the ninth of...

Shavuot is described in the Torah as an agricultural holiday. On the second day of Passover, the feast of spring (Deuteronomy 16: 1), the...

The identity of the Jewish people is determined by everything that happened to our ancestors in Egypt, their process of liberation by...