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...

Passover and Easter. A m message of freedom and responsibility.

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...

Purim is a very peculiar holiday. Judaism teaches to avoid excessive behaviors, but on Purim it is a mitzwah to overindulge with...

The book of 2 Maccabees is one of the most important sources to understand the meaning of the Chanukah festival (“Dedication” in Hebrew)...

The festival of Sukkot is celebrated over seven days, but the Torah adds an “eighth day” of joy to it: “Shemini Atzeret” (an expression...

What is the meaning of the celebration of Sukkot? The question seems unnecessary since there is a biblical paragraph that gives a very...

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...

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