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    Celebration amid darkness
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Apr 14
    • 3 min

    Celebration amid darkness

    Understanding the meaning of the plagues that God sent upon the Egyptians In Exodus 13:8, the Bible instructs the Hebrew people to...
    A Time of Purity
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Sep 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    A Time of Purity

    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...
    The Day for Humanity
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Sep 5, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Day for Humanity

    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...
    Shavuot
    Rabbi Skorka
    • May 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Shavuot

    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...
    Passover and Easter: A Message of Freedom and Responsibility
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Mar 24, 2021
    • 4 min

    Passover and Easter: A Message of Freedom and Responsibility

    Passover and Easter. A m message of freedom and responsibility.
    Rosh Hashanah 5781
    Abraham Skorka
    • Sep 13, 2020
    • 2 min

    Rosh Hashanah 5781

    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, the festival of solidarity
    Rabbi Skorka
    • May 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Shavuot, the festival of solidarity

    Shavuot is called a harvest festival in the Torah, since it happens at the beginning of the harvest of the most precious grain: wheat...
    Reflections for Passover in a Time of a Corona Virus Pandemic
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Apr 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    Reflections for Passover in a Time of a Corona Virus Pandemic

    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...
    Sukkot – The celebration of faith
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Oct 10, 2019
    • 2 min

    Sukkot – The celebration of faith

    The faith of the people on the occasion of their departure from Egypt, the foundational event of Israel, has two aspects. On the one...
    Yom Kippur - A day fully dedicated to the spirit
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Oct 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    Yom Kippur - A day fully dedicated to the spirit

    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...
    Rosh Hashanah – Judgment and Re-creation
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Sep 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    Rosh Hashanah – Judgment and Re-creation

    There are two essential concepts at the heart of the holyday of Rosh Hashana: Judgment and Re-creation. At the beginning of each new...
    9th of Av - Destruction and recovery
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Aug 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    9th of Av - Destruction and recovery

    According to Jewish tradition, the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem, like the second, occurred on the same day, the ninth of...
    Shavuot- The agricultural festival and the giving and receiving of the Torah
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Jun 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    Shavuot- The agricultural festival and the giving and receiving of the Torah

    Shavuot is described in the Torah as an agricultural holiday. On the second day of Passover, the feast of spring (Deuteronomy 16: 1), the...
    Pesach
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Apr 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Pesach

    The identity of the Jewish people is determined by everything that happened to our ancestors in Egypt, their process of liberation by...
    Purim and Its Enigmas
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Mar 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    Purim and Its Enigmas

    Purim is a very peculiar holiday. Judaism teaches to avoid excessive behaviors, but on Purim it is a mitzwah to overindulge with...
    Hanukkah
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Nov 29, 2018
    • 2 min

    Hanukkah

    The book of 2 Maccabees is one of the most important sources to understand the meaning of the Chanukah festival (“Dedication” in Hebrew)...
    Simchat Torah: The greatest joy
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Sep 27, 2018
    • 3 min

    Simchat Torah: The greatest joy

    The festival of Sukkot is celebrated over seven days, but the Torah adds an “eighth day” of joy to it: “Shemini Atzeret” (an expression...
    The Essence of Sukkot
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Sep 21, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Essence of Sukkot

    What is the meaning of the celebration of Sukkot? The question seems unnecessary since there is a biblical paragraph that gives a very...
    The Holiness of Yom Kippur
    Rabbi Skorka
    • Sep 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Holiness of Yom Kippur

    Yom Kippur is the most important day in the Jewish calendar. Since biblical times it was dedicated as the time when in response to a...
    Rosh Hashanah 5779
    Abraham Skorka
    • Sep 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    Rosh Hashanah 5779

    Biblical festivals are generally related to the seasonal events on the ancient agricultural calendar in the land of Israel: Pesach with...

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