Said Haman to Achashverosh: “Let these [Jewish] people be destroyed…” The King removed his signet ring, gave it to Haman and replied: “Do with them as you see fit.” …A decree went out to destroy, slay and exterminate all Jews, young and old, women and children on a single day, the 13th of Adar and to plunder their possessions…[1] Shortly after Hamen’s demise (in the month of Sivan), Esther begged the King to annul Haman’s genocidal plot that was still scheduled to occur in se

Everyone’s invited to the33rd ANNUAL DANCE AND LEARN CATERED SEUDA AND PURIM PARTY FOR WOMENthat begins on Monday, March 25th at 3:30 PM and then pauses between 6 PM and 8 PM for the powerful and transformative featured event, thePURIM HIGH COUNCIL PRAYER AND MEDITATION GATHERING FOR WOMEN,that will (hopefully) also be on Zoom and will begin at:6:00 PM Israel time | 12:00 noon EDT | 9:00 AM PDT | 4:00 PM UKBe there, or be square!

A Kavvanah for Ha Lachma Aniya Which Opens the Maggid Recitation of the Haggadah …This year we are here; next year in the Land of Israel. This year we are slaves; next year we’ll be free people: :הָשַׁתָּא הָכָא, לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בְּאַרְעָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל. הָשַׁתָּא עַבְדֵּי, לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בְּנֵי חוֹרִין… There are many factors that contribute to the miraculous survival of this ancient, indigenous tribal nation called Israel and their adaptation through millennia to the “

h Shavuot 5784 / 2024(reprint)Sarah Yehudit Schneider If it’s truth then it’s also Torah. [TY RH 3:8]If someone asserts that the nations have wisdom…believe them. Yet, if someone asserts that the nations have [Oral] Torah, do not believe them.” [LamR 2:13] Our Written Torah is fixed and final. Its sequence of letters, spacings, stories and commands is sacred and static. A scribal error of even a single letter invalidates the entire scroll. Its authority derives from its cons

ar It’s clear (as we’ve seen) that rectified decision-making is a skill we must cultivate to find our way through the post-Edenic world of “good and evil” where everything is shades of gray. Success requires a low-grade prophesy called, ruach hakodesh. Yet as we’ll soon see, that requires a rectified will, which requires a pure heart, which requires equanimity, which requires an immunity to flattery and insult, which requires a mastery of our innate tendencies toward narcissi

Tisha B’Av teachings over the years (2007-present).