Was It Worth Creating the World for Me?
Rosh Hashana is the anniversary of the creation of the first man. It's also the day on which God judges the whole world. What is the connection between the two?
Rosh Hashana23 Videos
Harry’s Video Blog – Widening the Circle: Rosh Hashana
The world changed dramatically this year. How should that influence our high holiday prayers?
From Hollywood To Holyland – A Story of Teshuva
This is the story, more or less, of how I became religious.
Return of the King – Rosh Hashana
When the world at large believed in a God, kings held the power of life and death. As the world in general turned aside from a belief in God, so the power of the monarch waned. What is the connection between the two?
King George and the Little Jewish Boy – Rosh Hashana
I heard this story from Rabbi YY Jacobson. The Kindertransport was a desperate effort to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. During the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 children, from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools, and farms. Often, they were the only members of their families to survive the Holocaust. One of those children was Beryl Gartner, who later in his life told his story to BBC radio.
כתיבה וחתימה טובה!
The Lion Roared – Preparation for Selichot
The lion roared. It roared last Elul, it roared last Rosh Hashana, it roared on Yom Kippur and it roared on Hoshana Rabba, October 6th – but we didn’t hear it.
Shofar – Speech of the Heart – 30 minute shiur – Audio
Rabbi Sinclair’s on-line art gallery – http://www.seasonsofthemoon.com/ Rabbi Sinclair’s book on the weekly Parsha – https://www.israelbookshoppublications.com/store/pc/The-Color-of-Heaven-54p652.htm
King George and the Little Jewish Boy – Rosh Hashana – עברית (Hebrew subtitles)
This is the Hebrew subtitles version of the video released last week.
Fear of Elul
Right now, faced with the prospect of having to turn my life and my emotions upside down, I go into a panic that results in total spiritual paralysis. Fear of Elul.
Chadesh Yomeinu K’kedem: New of Yore
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