by Rabbi Berel Wein | Aug 4, 2005 | Beginner
Having just recently passed through the fast day of the Seventeenth of Tammuz, the Jewish world sadly prepares for the fast day of the Ninth of Av, the day that marks the destruction of both Temples and commemorates other later national tragedies in Jewish history....
by Rabbi Berel Wein | May 13, 2005 | Beginner
The current period of time between the holidays of Pesach and Shavuos are the times of the sefiras haoemer – the counting of the seven weeks of forty-nine days that are between these two major holidays on the Jewish calendar. As is well known this period of time...
by Rabbi Akiva Tatz | Apr 19, 2005 | Beginner
Let us look more deeply into the energy of beginnings. Both Rosh Hashanah and Passover are beginnings of the year. Rosh Hashanah is the occasion of new creation of the human as an individual; Passover is the occasion of new creation of the Jewish people. What can we...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Apr 15, 2005 | Beginner
As we are all aware, this year erev Pesach, the day before the holiday and the Seder, falls on Shabbos. This phenomenon occurs at irregular intervals within the confines of the Jewish calendar. Sometimes, it comes every four or five years as it has during the last few...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Dec 9, 2004 | Beginner
Since Chanuka is the holiday that celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Hasmoneans after the Syruian Greeks had defiled it and placed pagan gods within its precincts, I am interested in discussing the menorah – the great seven-branched...
