BS”D Why do we celebrate Tu BiShvat, the Rosh HaShanah La’Ilanot, in the middle of the winter– a time when nothing is growing and the world around us descends into a deep, frost-bitten slumber? It seems to be at the wrong time of the year. Shouldn’t the New Year for the Trees come in the…
BS”D The days of Chanukah are a time to thank HaShem and praise His Great Name על נסיך ועל נפלאותיך ועל ישועותיך… “…for Your miracles, for Your wonders and for Your salvations” We recall what HaShem did for our forefathers and for us as a nation… how He, in His great love for us, saved…
BS”D Seek Hashem when He can be found. Call upon Him when He is near. Yeshayah 55:6 According to Chazal, this possuk refers to Elul and even more so to the Ten Days of Repentance. Even though repentance and petition are always appropriate, during the ten days between Rosh HaShanah and Yom HaKipurim it is…
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BS”D Sometimes I wonder when I’ll be old… When I was in my teens and twenties, I used to think that 40 was old. But now that I’m in my my forties, I don’t feel that much different. I’m a little more gray, a little more wrinkled, maybe a little more settled, but I can’t…
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BS”D Even for those of us who are generally optimistic, it is so easy to focus on all the “wreckage” in our lives… all the bad decisions we’ve made… all the times we’ve fallen… all the good resolutions that were never kept… all the places where we feel like we have no control. Positive change…
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