Category Archives: holidays

Let’s all do the al chet (2)

Posted on 2009/09/17 by davka

[A slight vari­ant of this page will appear here 10 times. In each the text will remain essen­tial­ly the same. How­ev­er, I will add a link to a new “sur­vey” each time.] I have writ­ten else­where, that I came to the rab­binate out of “poli­ty” … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Elul Homework 2 (I’ve done that too!)

Posted on 2009/09/01 by davka

con­fir­ma­tion and ver­i­fi­ca­tion Some­times we think that we are the only per­son who has done such ter­ri­ble things to oth­ers. It can be lib­er­at­ing and for­giv­ing for us, and those oth­ers like us, to learn that we are not alone. … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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