Rosh Hashanah
The temptation is overwhelming to excuse or soften the drama of Genesis 22. A leading professor of Jewish thought explains how to get past that, and what meaning lies beyond it.
God’s first creative proclamation was “Let there be light,” so it might seem that the day came first. But then why does the Bible say that “it was evening and it was morning?”
This week, we dig through the archives to bring you excerpts from our best conversations on faith, mortality, tradition, obligation, and sin.
The ancient Israelites, wandering in the wilderness, had more plentiful provisions than British Airways on this particular evening. How would I—we—get through this journey?
No other holiday contains a greater diversity of themes.
Not a mistake.
A Rosh Hashanah sermon on anti-Semitism.
In a worship service almost defined by its eloquence, Judaism mandates an unintelligible noise.
Isaac unbound.
To One Great Hasidic Thinker, the Shofar Was a Tool to Loosen the Divine from Its Corporeal Shackles
“Happy is the people who knows the blast.”
Why the first of Nisan, which falls on this coming Saturday, would seem to be the most important date of all.
From Alaska to Jerusalem.
God prays that His own mercy will triumph.
What happens when, once a year, the urge to accommodate every consumer fashion meets massive Jewish cultural illiteracy?