Category Archives: Holidays

Wonderful Pesach Video (from Chavruta)

Posted on April 6, 2011 by cyberdov

Delightful! Take 15 min out of your day and watch this.

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Hoshanah Rabbah at KJ

Posted on October 9, 2009 by cyberdov

I went to Kehillath Jeshurun on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with my father for shacharit today – my first time there for Hoshanah Rabbah. I really liked the davening – ‘davening with dignity’, as someone described it to me. As … Continue reading →

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DJC Shabbat Shuva Drasha – Yonah & Yom Kippur

Posted on September 25, 2009 by cyberdov

Perhaps the point of the whole story is that Yonah erred in thinking that disagreeing with God necessitates severing the relationship – rather, God prefers to keep the conversation going. Yonah had believed that the relationship is predicated on obedience and submission – the book is about God correcting this idea. Continue reading →

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Some thoughts for Yom Kippur

Posted on September 25, 2009 by cyberdov

From Rabbi Hyim Shafner at Morethodoxy: Yom Kippur will arrive this week and thousands of Jews will attend synagogues.  Why is it that so many attend synagogue on Yom Kippur, but not the rest of the year?  What is it … Continue reading →

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Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah

Posted on March 31, 2009 by cyberdov

From http://9a4440c5.fb.joyent.us/haggadah/ultraModern2.php  (Hat Tip: Elan) The Passover Seder, the oldest continuously observed religious ceremony in the world, tells the story of the Jews’ Exodus from Egypt.  Jewish tradition says that people of each generation must imagine that they personally had departed … Continue reading →

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