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Yom Kippur’s Final Call

While every tefillah of Yom Kippur is essential, Neilah (the last tefillah of Yom Kippur) is probably themost potent and intense prayer in the entire Jewish calendar. While Neilah lacks the lengthy confessionsthat appear in every other tefillah on Yom Kippur, it is brimming with calls of the thirteen mercifulattributes of Hashem. As the gates […]

Rosh HaShanah and Shabbat: Sounding the Shofar in the Streets of Jerusalem

This year, on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, our shuls will be silent from the sound of the shofar. As the Gemara in the fourth chapter of Tractate Rosh Hashanah explains (29b), the sages decreed that we should not blow shofar when Rosh Hashanah coincides with Shabbat, lest one come to inadvertently desecrate Shabbat […]