Why Wait for Prayers? The verse in this week’s Torah reading says (2:5) that although all the plants were created during the six days of creation, the plants hadn’t grown […]
Judaism 101
In Mizmor Lisoda, a part of our daily morning prayers, we say a passage from Tehillim (psalms): “Ivdu es Hashem bisimcha, bo’u lifanav birnana – serve Hashem with joy, come […]
One of my earliest memories, from when I was perhaps five or six years old, is of my mother leading what was called, “Junior Congregation,” I think. It was basically […]
How to Thank God Offering of Thanks וְכִֽי־תִזְבְּח֥וּ זֶֽבַח־תּוֹדָ֖ה לַֽהֹ’ לִרְצֹֽנְכֶ֖ם תִּזְבָּֽחוּ And when you slaughter a thanksgiving offering to Hashem, you shall slaughter it so that it should be […]
Dovid Hamelech states in Tehillim (116:16) the well-known words which we say in Hallel, “Ana Hashem, ki ani avdecha, ani avdicha ben amasecha. Pitachta li’mosei’rai — I give thanks to […]
In Shemone Esrei, we express our great sorrow and longing for the days in which we will finally return to Jeusalem once again, with the words: “ And let our […]
Our Sages point out that Leah, our matriarch, was destined to marry Eisav who would become the father of Edom. Through the power of prayer, however, Leah changed her destiny […]
Every person in our holy nation possesses a unique individuality that has two parts. We find the Jews being compared to the stars often throughout the Torah, such as when […]
Throughout the first part of our morning prayers, known as the Pesukei D’Zimrah, we sing praises to Hashem from chapters of Psalms. One chapter that we recite (Tehillim 150 – […]
This Yom Kippur eve during the evening service, I got to a point in my prayers where I realized that there were things I had done during the past year […]
