Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
Discover the son of King David who revolted against his father and met an ignoble death.
Every year, our sages taught, with the cry of the shofar, the entire universe is reborn.
And so, at that time, with our resolutions and our prayers, we hold an awesome power: To determine what sort of child this newborn year shall be—how it will take its first breaths, how it will struggle to its feet, and how it will c...
"Chai Elul" - the 18th day of the month of Elul - is the birthday, in 1698, of the founder of Chassidism, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov. It is also the day on which his "spiritual grandson," the founder...
The Talmud relates that while King David was immersed in Torah, Yoav went out to battle.
Do not scorn any man, and do not discount any thing. For there is no man who has not his hour, and no thing that has not its place.
– Ethics of the Fathers, 4:3
Passing of R. Chaim Benveniste
(1673)
R. Chaim Benveniste was a renowned scholar who served as
rabbi in Tire, a town near Izmir, Turkey, and... Read More »
As the last month of the Jewish year, Elul is traditionally a time of introspection and stocktaking --... Read More »
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