
Signposts on the Road to Repentance
If you are ill, you can be healed, but only if you visit the doctor. We can heal sin through repentance, but only if we stay in contact with G-d.

If you are ill, you can be healed, but only if you visit the doctor. We can heal sin through repentance, but only if we stay in contact with G-d.

If you are ill, you can be healed, but only if you visit the doctor. We can heal sin through repentance, but only if we stay in contact with G-d.

Freedom of thought is a G-d given right. In communist and socialist countries, the individual is made to cede to

The uplifting return that marks the first ten days of the Hebrew calendar year is expressed in the name that

A Year on Credit? Everyone knows that the last festival of the High Holidays season is Simchat Torah when we

Rain and Dew When on vacation I like to rise early to study, pray and enjoy the crisp ambiance of

Freedom of thought is a G-d given right. In communist and socialist countries, the individual is made to cede to

The uplifting return that marks the first ten days of the Hebrew calendar year is expressed in the name that

A Year on Credit? Everyone knows that the last festival of the High Holidays season is Simchat Torah when we

Rain and Dew When on vacation I like to rise early to study, pray and enjoy the crisp ambiance of

If you are ill, you can be healed, but only if you visit the doctor. We can heal sin through repentance, but only if we stay in contact with G-d.

Why do we not confess on Rosh Hashanah, the day of judgment? Why do we not sound the Shofar on Yom Kippur?
In this essay, we will learn that repentance means regretting an action and seeking forgiveness. Teshuvah means to return. To pivot back to G-d. It is a moment in time that sets up the journey of life.

They hate us. They accuse us of destroying the world in many ways. Are they wrong to say that we have destroyed the world? Yes. Are they right that we can change the world for the better? Yes. G-d gave us that power. We would do well to hear it from our enemies if we refuse to hear it from G-d.

Is it discriminatory to say that we are not just a united nation; we are a nation of one, so interconnected that we are like a single person? Is it Okay to say that Jews are different from everyone else?

Why is shoplifting so terrible? What makes it worse than regular theft? It is not so much the act, but the arguments we make up in our minds to justify it. Left unchecked, our entire society can go down with the shoplifters.

Is money a blessing or a curse? That depends on how we use it and what it does to us. If it makes us better people and we use it as a resource to help others, it is a blessing. If it makes us self-absorbed it is a curse.

The body eats bread, meat, eggs, vegetables, and fish. What does the soul eat? In every piece of food, there is a spark of G-d. While the body eats bread, the soul eats G-dliness. The spark of G-d inside the bread.

The Torah tells us not to add commandments that are not written in the Torah and not to remove commandments that G-d wrote into the Torah.
We understand why removing is a bad thing, but why is adding also wrong? If what we have is good, is more not better?

If you are ill, you can be healed, but only if you visit the doctor. We can heal sin through repentance, but only if we stay in contact with G-d.

Why do we not confess on Rosh Hashanah, the day of judgment? Why do we not sound the Shofar on Yom Kippur?
In this essay, we will learn that repentance means regretting an action and seeking forgiveness. Teshuvah means to return. To pivot back to G-d. It is a moment in time that sets up the journey of life.

They hate us. They accuse us of destroying the world in many ways. Are they wrong to say that we have destroyed the world? Yes. Are they right that we can change the world for the better? Yes. G-d gave us that power. We would do well to hear it from our enemies if we refuse to hear it from G-d.

Is it discriminatory to say that we are not just a united nation; we are a nation of one, so interconnected that we are like a single person? Is it Okay to say that Jews are different from everyone else?

Why is shoplifting so terrible? What makes it worse than regular theft? It is not so much the act, but the arguments we make up in our minds to justify it. Left unchecked, our entire society can go down with the shoplifters.

Is money a blessing or a curse? That depends on how we use it and what it does to us. If it makes us better people and we use it as a resource to help others, it is a blessing. If it makes us self-absorbed it is a curse.

The body eats bread, meat, eggs, vegetables, and fish. What does the soul eat? In every piece of food, there is a spark of G-d. While the body eats bread, the soul eats G-dliness. The spark of G-d inside the bread.

The Torah tells us not to add commandments that are not written in the Torah and not to remove commandments that G-d wrote into the Torah.
We understand why removing is a bad thing, but why is adding also wrong? If what we have is good, is more not better?







