Category: 5780
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Yom Kippur 5780: “The Prophet of Distillation”
The first and last time I tried to recite Tashlikh prayers in Israel was unlike anything I had ever seen before. When I was 18, I left home and traveled to Israel to study in a…
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Kol Nidre 5780: “Spiritual and Physical”
There is a prayer that is printed in your machzorim called Tefilah Zakah that some people recite before Yom Kippur begins. The culmination of the prayer is a poignant recognition that even the power of Yom…
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Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5780: “Beyond the Straw Hat Shul”
One Shabbat morning in the summer of 1870, Duber Ginsberg, an immigrant from Mariampol Lithuania walked into his erstwhile shul while wearing a straw hat whereupon he was promptly thrown out for his impudence and irreverence.…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 