Tishrei – The Symbol of Water Through the Holidays
One of the most effective methods used by Torah commentaries for millennia to showcase an underlying web of connections between various ideas, stories, holidays or mitzvot, is to take a single concept and attempt to see how it manifests itself throughout all the intended themes and topics under consideration. Although there are many concepts that […]
Judgment and Compassion in Creation
We will begin with the paradoxical nature of judgment and compassion which forms one of the main cornerstones of Rosh Hashanah. Although Rosh Hashanah commemorates the sixth day of creation, in a more global sense it also celebrates the genesis of all creation, as it states in the Rosh Hashanah prayers:“This day is the anniversary […]