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rejoice in your festivals — a sukkot meditation

Ear­li­er ver­sions of this have been post­ed at my orig­i­nal (pre-blog) site (first post­ed in 1997) and par­tial­ly as “time for prun­ing” in 2011. A vari­ant also exists as a print­able PDF that is not cur­rent­ly avail­able. The days grow short, the … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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how many different ways can you say the al chet (על חטא)?

When I first post­ed these pos­si­bil­i­ties of reimag­in­ing the al chet I did not imag­ine that so many of us would spend an entire Yom Kip­pur online. Now, when our pri­ma­ry con­nec­tion to the Yom Kip­pur litur­gy is via our dig­i­tal devices, … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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