Tag: Maimonides

Rabbi Jeremy Markiz

Renewal Through Memory: Elul 26

Daily Elul kavanot: Short intentions guiding reflection, teshuvah, and spiritual renewal in preparation for the High Holidays.

Rabbi Jeremy Markiz

Same, but Different: Elul 25

Daily Elul kavanot: Short intentions guiding reflection, teshuvah, and spiritual renewal in preparation for the High Holidays.

Rabbi Mordechai Rackover

Confess Your … Mitzvot!

One of my teachers died this week. Rabbi David Ebner, z”l, was a spectacular educator, poet, and thinker. Most importantly, he was a giant and

Rabbi Jeremy Markiz

Teshuvah’s Steps: Elul 14

Daily Elul kavanot: Short intentions guiding reflection, teshuvah, and spiritual renewal in preparation for the High Holidays.

Rabbi Jeremy Markiz

The Sound You Avoid: Elul 11

Daily Elul kavanot: Short intentions guiding reflection, teshuvah, and spiritual renewal in preparation for the High Holidays.

Fury and Fermentation: A Hasidic Teaching for Pesach
Rabbi Dan Ornstein

Fury and Fermentation

Learn about fury and fermentation, the concept that our anger could be spiritual hametz during Pesach and all year-round.

In the Name of All of Israel
Rabbi Mordechai Rackover

In the Name of All of Israel

Building on ideas of Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev and Maimonides – Avraham showed us a path to repair even in the darkest of times.

Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal

Fair Prices: A Jewish Perspective

The Mishnah defines the fair price of an item, such that the seller earn a fair price, while not defrauding the buyer.

Rabbi Dr. Karen Reiss Medwed

Creating a Sacred Physical Space

Halakhah demands that we invoke God’s name in prayer only in settings that are worthy of the sacred enterprise of prayer.