Tag: High Holidays
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Rosh Chodesh Elul 5786
Posted on Substack on August 14, 2026 Contemplative Torah returns, just in time for the season of turning and returning Today we mark Rosh Chodesh Elul, the first day of the final month of the Hebrew calendar. Elul is the time often set aside for spiritual and personal accounting ahead…
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B’Kol Libeinu: The Call of Our Hearts
As we approach a High Holiday season like none other, many of us find ourselves wondering how to approach these weighty days. B’Kol Libeinu: The Call of Our Hearts is a Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur Machzor Companion with contributions from over 40 magnificent educators, clergy, writers, poets, and artists. You can…
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Thoughts For Yom Kippur 5782
Yom Kippur is often translated into English as the Jewish day of atonement, though I feel that this is a mistranslation. Yom Kippur’s awesomeness, in the literal sense of the word, is that the Jewish tradition provides us with a 25-hour period, Shabbat Shabbaton (the sabbath of sabbaths) to focus…
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The Sfat Emet on Yom Kippur
This drasha was originally written in 5777. One of the most beautiful teachings I have encountered about Yom Kippur is from the Sfat Emet. The Sfat Emet uses the symbology and metaphor of a mikvah to talk about what Yom Kippur is and how it functions. Yom Kippur is this…
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 