In search of purity
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...
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Rabbi Skorka
- Sep 25, 2022
- 4 min
Prayers to God in a world on fire
Rosh Hashanah 5783 Fratelli tutti is the encyclical that better presents the core of France’s thought. I remember the passion that he...
Rabbi Skorka
- Apr 14, 2022
- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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