The Rambam (end of Chapter 8 of Hilchot Lulav) states: “Even though it is a Mitzvah to rejoice on all the festivals, there was an...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The last days of the festival of Sucot have, over time, turned from a sort of last-minute postscript called Shmini...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Festival of Sucot doubles up as the Festival of Ecology. Yes, indeed. You might think that ecology is a modern...

Deuteronomy Chapter 32 Jewish Song by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen “Listen to the song,” we are told in this week’s Torah reading, Haazinu. Song...

The days between Yom Kippur and the Sukkot holiday are indeed holy ones during which we are involved with the building of the Sukkah in...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen “Adonai, what is a human being that You should care about him, what is a mortal, that You should consider it? A...

Deuteronomy 31 Why God Hides by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipur is always called the Shabbat Shuvah,...

For the customary order of the symbolic foods eaten on the nights of Rosh Hashanah, click here. Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Judgment...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen First of all, the photos I referred to in my previous blog about Prince Charles as he was, on his visit to Carmel...