Category: Yom Kippur
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Yom Kippur 5776: “Before I Was Born I Did Not Exist”
I. There was once a man who moved to a new city just a few days before a family wedding. Since he was new to the city he did not yet have a regular dry cleaner and…
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Yom Kippur 5775: “Love in a Time of Cholera”
Following Shacharit on Yom Kippur of 5610, in September 1849, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, the famous and pious Vilna rabbi – founder of the Mussar Movement, dedicated to injecting the pursuit of ethical excellence into traditional Jewish…
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Yom Kippur 5774
Why does God want our prayers? We are fasting. We are tired. We are hungry and we are weak. But, despite our weariness, we come together in shul to pray for hour after hour. There is…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 