From Parasha: Va'yelech

 

Never Will I Leave You

Tags:  repentance, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

"Be strong and courageous. ... He will not fail you or forsake you" (Deuteronomy 31:6). The High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are primarily about our relationship with God as individuals and as a common people. These are appointed times for reconciling with one another and with our Father in Heaven. If we take the opportunity to turn to God in sincere repentance in the name of His Son, He will receive us....
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Circumcise Your Heart

Tags:  circumcision, heart, inner nature, pride, repentance, stubbornness, uncircumcised

Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. (Deuteronomy 30:6)...
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United We Stand

Tags:  congregation, distinctions, one body, oneness, presence of God, unity

When a congregation stands together before God, it is more than a room full of individuals. By standing together to revere God, the congregation expresses itself as a single body....
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Moses and Gethsemane

Death is offensive to the human soul, for God has set an immortal longing in our hearts, as it is written, “He has also set eternity in their heart.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)...
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