Rabbi Moshe Segal: The Yom Kippur Shofar of Liberty
Long ago, the mitzvah of blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah was performed during Shacharit—the morning prayer. The Jerusalem Talmud[1] explains that the sages moved...
Category : High Holy Days
The Ba’al Shem Tov: When the Fox Forgot his Parables
The Midrash[1] relates the following parable: Once the lion, the king of the animals, became angry with all the animals. The animals consulted each other...
Blowing the Shofar from Elul to Yom Kippur
(Based on a class given on the 15th of Elul, 5775) Blowing the Shofar During the Month of Elul The Torah tells us to blow...
New Year Interview with Rabbi Ginsburgh
This is a translated excerpt from an interview with Rabbi Ginsburgh in honor of the new year. The full interview appeared in the weekly magazine,...
Rosh Hashanah: It’s All in Your Head
Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew literally means “the head of the year.” As such, it isn’t just that it’s the first day of the year. Like...
And You Thought You Were Doing Teshuvah? The Seer of Lublin
Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Halevi Horovitz, known as the “Seer of Lublin,” was born in Poland in 5505 (1745). He was the disciple of the holy...
Jonah the Prophet
Rabbi Ginsburgh’s amazing discussion of Jonah the Prophet, the haftarah that we read on Yom Kippur. Photo by Jennett Bremer on Unsplash...
When the Rebbe couldn't get a sound out of the shofar
Excerpted and translated from Rabbi Ginsburgh’s class from 17 Elul 5772. Before Rosh Hashanah one year in the 1950s, a Jew who we will call...
The Shofar and the Patriarchs
On Rosh Hashanah, we ask God to inscribe and seal us for a good year in both physical and spiritual matters. We ask Him for...
Relating to God in Elul, on Rosh Hashanah, and on Yom Kipur
The Husband/Wife Relationship (Editor's note: In order to simplify the text, we have referred to the mates in this chapter gender specifically. Certainly, the roles...
