It is customary for some to turn the Hebrew letters of the new year into a meaningful acrostic, as a wish & aspiration, a hope for the new year. There will be a variety of acrostics made for this year &h...
A long-anticipated repair finally was completed at Shabbos House in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah, so there certainly has to be a lesson in that! After all, this is a time to fix & patch things up...
This year (5784/2023) is one of those years when the first day of Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat. We don’t blow Shofar when it falls on Shabbat. In such calendar schedules Shofar is only blown on the s...
Given all the avid, passionate and knowledgeable meteorology friends we have at UAlbany, can’t help but hear a lot of buzz in this week leading up to Rosh Hashanah 5784/2023 about forecasting the path ...
Here’s a memory of mine from Motzai Shabbat Selichot (the midnight prayers on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah) from my Yeshiva years, and thinking back to that now, as we look forward to Midnig...
