Last week, Rav Herschel Schachter published a teshuva, a responsum, essentially stating that if there is a contradiction between “din” and “minhag,” between a strict halacha and a custom, that the ...

Rosh Hashanah kicks off the Jewish calendar year and starts the High Holy Days and the Days of Repentance. Here is everything you need to know about it. Rosh Hashanah is the the beginning of the ...

Why is Rosh Hashanah important? Rosh Hashanah begins the leadup to Yom Kippur, some of the holiest days in the Hebrew year (known as "Days of Awe"). Rosh Hashanah celebrates God's creation of mankind ...

Parshat Nitzavim is always the Shabbat before Rosh Hashana and the hint to this is in the first pasuk “Atem Nitzavim Hayom.” The Zohar HaKadosh says that when it says “Hayom” in the pesukim, it is ...

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The two-day holiday known as Rosh Hashanah kicks off the beginning of the Jewish "High Holidays," a ten-day period of repentance and reflection that culminates with Yom Kippur, also known as the Day ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, and lasts for two days. It marks the beginning of a series of special dates on the Jewish calendar, called the High Holidays ...

We are with God and with ourselves, in belief and in actions, as the Jewish people, the Jewish nation, rooted on our soil, despite words spoken at the Emmy Awards stage. We are in the Ten Days of ...

The sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is a wordless cry in a religion of words, a sound produced by breath as if to tell us that that is all life is — a mere breath — yet breath is nothing less ...