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A Kabbalah and the Silver Dollar (opens the original)
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Everyone in the tavern thought Yankel was the town fool. Night after night, they offered him a choice: a twenty-dollar bill, a ten, a five, or one shiny silver dollar. And every night, to their enormous amusement, Yankel chose the silver dollar. Until one day the bartender pulled him aside and begged him to take the twenty. Yankel smiled. “If I take the twenty once, the game is over. As long as I take the dollar, they keep coming back.” Perhaps Yankel understood something that we desperately nee
The Prayer That Reopened the Case (opens the original)
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Can a judgment that has already been made be reconsidered? Rosh Hashanah has passed. The books have been opened. Yom Kippur is approaching. And perhaps we wonder: if the judgment has already been written, what can another prayer, another tear, another act of teshuvah possibly accomplish? An extraordinary story in the Zohar, set in the ancient Galilean village of Peki’in, gives us a remarkable answer. A little boy stands before HaShem with nothing but Torah, tears, and a prayer — and somehow, the
The Door Yom Kippur Cannot Open (opens the original)
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We spent Rosh Hashanah in Givot Eden, and what was supposed to be a short two-day trip through northern Israel somehow became a journey filled with enough stories for weeks. Most of that was because of my wife Chantelle, who has a wonderful habit of making me stop when I am ready to keep driving. One of those stops brought us to the extraordinary Tunisian synagogue in Akko, a building covered from floor to ceiling with millions of tiny mosaic stones. And because Chantelle insisted that we stay,
When the Excuses Run Out - Ha’azinu, Rabbi Elazar ben Dordaya, and the Courage of Teshuvah (opens the original)
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When the Excuses Run Out We all have explanations for why we are the way we are. It was our parents. It was the home we grew up in. It was our environment, our circumstances, our personality, perhaps even our DNA. And sometimes those explanations are absolutely true. But somewhere between understanding where we came from and deciding where we are going, explanation can quietly become excuse. In this morning’s Breakfast and a Class, as we prepare for Rosh Hashanah through the opening words of Ha’
Why Some Don’t Dip the Apple in Honey (opens the original)
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Ask almost any Jewish child what we eat on Rosh Hashanah and the answer comes immediately: apples and honey. It is one of the most beloved and recognizable customs of the year. But not every Jewish community followed that tradition. In Baghdad, in Aleppo, in Damsacas and throughout the near east, following the custom recorded by the Ben Ish Chai, the apple was cooked in sugar rather than dipped in honey. In our own family, we never used honey at the Rosh Hashanah table; even after coming to Amer
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