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Sukkos: Hereâs what we do with the leftovers - The Jewish Star (opens the original)
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Every year, the day after Yom Kippur, I go into the garage and pull out the boards for my sukkah, and every year I have the same small argument with myself. Some of the wood is still solid, while some is warped from last yearâs rain, and I have to decide what is going back up and what finally belongs in the trash. It never occurred to me until I learned a remarkable Shem MiShmuel that Sukkos asks us to make that same decision. What do we do with the parts of the past year that did not turn out
Itâs Shabbos Shuva: Taking one step at a time - The Jewish Star (opens the original)
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Approaching Shabbos Shuva, I have a notepad in front of me with a list of things I need to work on. I am looking down at it now, and I see lashon hara. That is not an easy one for me. Sometimes congregants vent to me, and in my desire to please and keep my shul members happy, I will carry on with a conversation. There are other things on this list that I have not taken a single step toward working on. More kavana during Shemoneh Esrei is one of them. It just seems too difficult, and Yom Kippur i
Shabbos shofar that we are willing not to hear - The Jewish Star (opens the original)
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Seven years ago, I stood at the bris, eight days after my son’s birth, and said his name out loud for the first time. We named him Akiva Yosef after his great-grandfather, who was himself named after Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger. Rabbi Schlesinger was a relative whose life and Torah have always fascinated me. I remember feeling, even in that moment, that I was handing him something with weight attached, a name that carried a whole argument inside it. Rabbi Schlesinger, who lived in Yerushalayim
Netzavim-Vayelech: Which train are we on? - The Jewish Star (opens the original)
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Does anyone else reading this have a hard time with Selichos? I naturally connect with davening in general, but I always have a harder time with Selichos. Maybe part of it is the timing. I am not a night person. When the SHUL fills up well past midnight on the first night of Selichos, I sometimes wonder why. The Rama explains that this is an eis ratzon, a time of favor before HaKadosh Baruch Hu (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 581:1, Rama). But why is that the case? Why are we doing this now? Why be
Donât look past the blessing Hashem gave today - The Jewish Star (opens the original)
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A friend came last year to spend Shabbos with us. He has a good job, healthy children, and by every outward measure a full and blessed life. But Friday night at the table, I watched him only half there. He kept zoning out. When I asked what was on his mind, he admitted he had a presentation Monday morning that could shape the next few years of his career, and he could not stop running through everything that might go wrong. He was sitting in the middle of Shabbos and living in Monday. As I liste
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