The Jewish High Holy Days have just ended. Despite what many people think, the theme that runs through Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the New Year and Day of Repentance, has less to do with the concept of “sin” as we typically think about it and more to do with goal setting. The word for …
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Did you know that the word for sin in Hebrew—chet—comes from the sport of archery? So does the word Torah, which refers to the Old Testament scrolls and the text they contain. On Yom Kippur, the Day of Repentance, Jews all over the world recite the holiday liturgy, which contains a repetition of the words …
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Jews are told that on the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) “it is written” and on the Day of Repentance (Yom Kippur) “it is sealed.” What is “it”? Our fate for the next year. Where is it “written and sealed”? In the Book of Life. Most agree the Book of Life is figurative rather than …
Tomorrow begins the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Repentance. It comes after 10 days of introspection when we explore the sins we’ve committed and how to rectify them. We ask for forgiveness from those we’ve wronged as well as from God. There are three types of sins in the Jewish traditions: sins …
“And the word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying: Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city…” How often in your life have you heard God’s voice? Ever? Once? Many times? For me…It’s a still small voice…very small…I have to listen hard. I hear it if I pay close attention. When the …
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I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about as a Yom Kippur, Day of Repentance topic. This Jewish High Holy Day typically brings up issues of forgiveness. I didn’t really want to delve into that once again. Then I watched an Oprah Winfrey Master Class video about surrender, and I knew. That’s my …
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My computer crashed a week and a half ago. It required that I take it into the shop and have it checked out. There was nothing wrong with the hard drive. The technician said it passed the diagnostics test. The actual computer worked fine. It had a software problem. To solve the software problem the …
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As I prepare dinner for Erev Yom Kippur’s meal and think about going to services tonight, I remember the liturgy of the High Holy Days and of the Day of Repentance. I always feel I have death sitting on one shoulder and life sitting on the other. What will this year bring for my family …
Last year during the Jewish Days of Awe, or High Holy Days, which extend over the 10 days from Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, to Yom Kippur, the Day of Repentance, I wrote a series of 10 blog posts that discussed different ways to use each day for introspection. I’d like to simply call …
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Do you have faith in God? If not, why? Does your lack of faith constitute a sin? On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish Year, the Day of Repentance, we contemplate faith. This past summer while I as at the Aleph Kallah, author Arthur Kurzweil taught me that the “Jewish way of holiness …
I graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication. I still remember one of the first lessons I learned there: Communication-real communication-requires a broadcaster or transmitter and a receiver. In other words, someone has to speak and someone has to listen. Today, on the eight Day of Awe, with Yom Kippur just a …
How honest are you with other people and with yourself? It’s easy to figure out the latter and to repent for the sin of being dishonest with others. We can even tell them we are sorry and ask for forgiveness. We can even try to right the wrong. It’s harder to admit how we have …
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