Articles on The Jewish Year Cycle

Selichot refreshments

A Sweet Eretz-Israeli Elul

How did the happiest month of the year become a month of fear?

Who Is the Father Who Died in the Song “Met Av U’Met Elul”?

Three fathers created one song over the course of a thousand years

I am black and beautiful

Who Is the Mysterious Beloved of the Song of Songs?

It is customary to read the Song of Songs on Passover; beyond the springtime that suffuses the scroll, there is another fascinating connection

Coffee with a heart, resized

The Kindness of Receiving

Why Neta loves precisely the bland coffee I make her, and why on Passover, to be truly free, we must learn to be a little needy

Photo: Netanel Elinson

It’s Not Always Fun to Make Dreams Come True

What did I learn from my little son's Hanukkah money? (Miketz)

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro builds a sukkah. Photo: US Embassy in Israel

Why Do We Build Sukkot Right After Yom Kippur?

And how it is connected to the biggest sukkah the people of Israel ever had

Hagar praying for her son. Illustration: Gustave Doré

A Prayer for Those Who Pray Alone

During the COVID days, many prayed alone on Yom Kippur. The greatest prayers in the Tanakh were like that too

Days of destruction

Tisha B’Av Is Really Not Just About Baseless Hatred

And why we must beware of fighting the previous generation's problems

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The Secret of Tu B’Av

Tu B'Av was in fact the fourth pilgrimage festival of the people of Israel. Why was it forgotten? An in-depth essay

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They Did Not Go Like Sheep to the Slaughter

On a fatal mistake in understanding the Holocaust

History

The Four Days That Changed History

On the eve of Tisha B'Av, in the palace of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain, two different events took place that changed history

Boaz and Ruth

If Boaz Had Asked Rabbis, King David Would Never Have Been Born

Halakha is shaped in a pincer movement

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