Category: Ha’Azinu
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Ha’azinu 5786: Everyday Holines
In recent days I may have shared with a few of you how much I appreciate the first coffee after Yom Kippur and several of you sent me very sweet notes on Friday morning hoping that…
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Ha’Azinu 5783: “With Great Joy He Put on His Own Clothes”
The Prophet Elijah, Eliyahu HaNavi convened a great theological debate with the idolatrous prophets of Baal. As recounted in I Kings 18, Eliyahu alone was left alive among the true prophets of God and he had…
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Ha’Azinu 5782: “Rote Memorization”
Professor Hyim Soloveitchik is one of the most prominent historians of Medieval Jewish History, and the two graduate level courses I took with him at Yeshiva University were perhaps the most intimidating classroom experiences of my…
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Ha’Azinu 5779: “Synesthesia”
Here we are again. It can be exhausting to jump into Shabbat and then Yom Tov so soon after the intensity of the yamim ha’nora’im but for all of that exhaustion, I believe that there is something…
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Ha’Azinu 5777: “Don’t Let the Light Go Out”
Before I speak I thought I’d share a story. It happened here in shul, just last night. As we often do, we had a group of college students visiting as part of their study of religious…
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Ha’Azinu 5776: “Holy Guacamole”
I have a halakhic riddle. But before I ask the riddle I need to provide some background information. The year that just recently ended, 5775, was a shemita year, a Sabbatical year, when many times of…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 