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לשכת הגזית מתוך מודל בית המקדש הראשון של גרהרד שות, סוף המאה ה-17

Who Was “the Other”? The Wise Sage Who Became the Greatest Heretic

Try to picture this: Shabbat morning, a synagogue in Bnei Brak, and the late rabbi Elazar Shach delivers his sermon to his listeners, in sheer atmosphere of silence and holy awe. Then suddenly, a loud defying horn sound from a nearby sport car is heard just outside the synagogue. Now which scene is more likely to take place? The driver ends up leaving the neighborhood all beaten up, missing some teeth. or Rabbi Shach interrupts his sermon, steps out towards the car and him and the driver embark on a passionate Talmudic “pilpul” (debating), while the rabbi walks the man[]

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Who by Fire? The Story of “Unetanneh Tokef”

This coming Yom Kippur, just like every year, during the Musaf prayer, the famous piyyut “Unetanneh Tokef“ will be once again sung and touch all hearts in Ashkenazi synagogues and in part of the Sephardi and Yemenite ones as well. The piyyut opens with the words “Let us now relate the power of this day’s holiness, for it is awesome and frightening. On it Your Kingship will be exalted; Your throne will be firmed with kindness and You will sit upon it in truth”. It has been one of the most renowned texts in Jewish liturgy for centuries, which received the[]

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Hank Greenberg. As the first true Jewish American sporting icon, Greenberg understood his position as a symbol

Yom Run: Baseballs’ Immortal Keepers of the Jewish High Holiday

More than half a century later, Sandy Koufax’s decision not to pitch Game 1 of the 1965 World Series between his Los Angeles Dodgers and the Minnesota Twins, still reverberate loudly and clearly among American Jews. The greatest pitcher of his day, enjoying a five-year dominant span unparalleled in Baseball history, decided to respect Yom Kippur rather than play in the number one showpiece of American sports. What amplified Koufax’s decision was that it was coupled by sporting greatness. He would in fact start Game 2 and lose, but then pitched a four-hit complete game shutout victory in Game 5,[]

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תפילת ראש השנה בבית הכנסת, שיראז, אירן 1973 (צילום: לני זוננפלד. המרכז לתיעוד חזותי ע"ש אוסטר, בית התפוצות, אוסף זוננפלד)

Rosh Hashanah: The Politics and Theology Behind Jewish Time

He who has control over time, has control over agendas. Therefore, it is not surprising that the greatest revolutions in history always sought an opportunity to change or replace the calendar in use: the leaders of the French revolution replaced the Gregorian calendar with a new one, in which each month had three weeks, ten days each. The Bolsheviks in the Russian revolutions made a similar attempt and formed a special calendar for workers, which had five days, each called after a color: yellow, pink, red, purple and green. Well, that didn’t help them much. In 1806 Napoleon canceled the[]

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