New Holiday Page - Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah
Hi All,
I hope you all had a happy and healthy Rosh Hashana, and that you have an easy fast on Yom Kippur! Sorry this is a bit late, but here is the newest holiday page, available in the Jewish Living - Holidays section of the website. Enjoy!
Four days after the end of Yom Kippur, on [...]
Shana Tova from the Contributors and Friends at JBC.ORG
At this time of year, Rosh Hashanah, it is tradition to wish our friends, family, loved ones, a SHANA TOVA or a Happy New Year. Some of us wish others a year of peace. Others wish for a year of blessings. And still many offer the wish of health.
Whatever it is you most need [...]
Audio: Rabbi Sharon Brous On the Days of Awe
The High Holidays are literally just around the corner and if you’re anything like me then you’re probably scurrying around trying to get yourself psychologically and spiritually ready for the days ahead. Speaking for myself I have great difficulty connecting to the high holidays or rather anything where the focus is on group/communal prayer. I [...]
Sincere Supplication
I have been meditating on/praying in regards to, my relationship to my chosen faith, Judaism. I decided a month ago to try and find my own spiritual understanding/grounding in relationship to the holidays that are about to occur. This bit of soul searching is typical of my expression of faith.
My decision to covert was the [...]
Yom Kippur - A New Page in the Jewish Living Section of the JBC.org Site
For your reading enjoyment, here is the page for Yom Kippur, which you can also get to under Jewish Living, Holidays above. Enjoy!
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, falls ten days after Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year), and it is the culmination of the Yamim Nora’im, the Days of Awe. The injunction to observe [...]
