by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroduction B’erot stall at the Birthright Fair this weekThe month of Tevet gives us the opportunity to deal with anger and transform its power to combat our yetzer hara (evil inclination). According to Sefer Yetzirah, the dominant sense of the...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroductionSo it finally came, the rain, and in its wake the blessed snow. Perhaps not exactly a blessing, but I hope at least a blessing in beautiful, lacy, white disguise. I can’t believe that just a little more than a week ago we were almost...
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Printable VersionIntroduction Student trip to Jerusalem- at the KotelThe Tenth day of the Tenth Month (Tevet) is a fast day, in commemoration of the siege of Jerusalem, the beginning of the destruction of the Temple, but how is this day relevant to us today? It is a...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroductionThe month of Tevet is about taking the light of Kislev and bringing it into the very lowest most physical place of our being. The shape of the letter ע/ayin points toward this concept, for it is a letter that has a strong base below the...
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Printable VersionPlaying the dreidel (top) on Chanukah is much more than a children’s game, but where does the minhag (custom) come from, and what does this game have to do with Chanukah? Here is one answer: During the Greek exile when Torah study was outlawed, the...
