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Sukkot Thoughts

By Rabbi Aharon Seleh: These four days between Yom Kippur and Sukkot are powerful days. The Imrei Pinchas quotes the Zohar that the Aura of Yom Kippur continues for three days afterwards, and Hashem continues to forgive the the Jewish nation, if he sees us elevating ourselves. The Chemdat Yomim […]

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Yom Kippur Thoughts

By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari: Shalom, People usually relax after Rosh Hashana, they figure, I have time till Yom Kippur so they let these days slide. We also think, I’m not so bad, I keep Shabbat, kashrut and all the other BIG ones, so I’m not very careful with the “little” […]

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Rosh Hashana Thoughts

By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: Rosh Hashana is the Day of Judgment. Anything that happened this past year with our health, parnasa, job, and the pandemic was written on Rosh Hashana and sealed on Yom Kippur. And anything which will happen next year will be written and signed on these High […]

Parashat Ki Tavo

By Rabbi Moshe Vosoghi: In this week’s Parsha, we find the Mitzva of Bikkurim. The Torah commands that we bring the first ripened fruits from the seven species to the Bet Hamikdash. Once there, the farmer would read a special passage which also happens to be the main text of […]

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Parashat Ki Tetzei

By Rabbi David Cohen: And so shall you do for any lost article of your brother that may become lost from him and you find it; you shall not hide yourself. (22:3) Horav Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, zl, writes that he once received a letter from a law professor at the […]