The cantor and incredible choir of the Israeli Defense Forces sing U’netaneh Tokef, the highlight of Yom Kippur liturgy, which concerns God determining who will die and who will live in the coming year.
For some people, the concept of fasting for 24-25 hours can be a difficult aspect of Tisha B’Av or any of the other holidays observed with fasting throughout the year.
Shavout, the Feast of Weeks, is celebrated seven weeks after Passover to commemorate the first fruits of the harvest, and associated with the giving of the torah on Mount Sinai.
Dayenu translates to “it would have been enough,” or “it would have been sufficient,” and has been a traditional Passover song for more than a millennia.
The Exodus story depicts leaving the chains of slavery for the Promised Land, but what exactly were the Jews doing in Egypt to pass their days for over 400 years?
Even though masks, costumes, flashy colors, and carnival themes are nowhere reflected in a scriptural analysis of the Book of Esther, the Mishnah, Talmud, or otherwise in early rabbinic writings, it…