Rosh Hashana marks the conception and Pesach marks the birth of Knesset Yisrael, the Mystical Body of Israel, born on the other side of the parted sea.

Rosh Hashana (humanity’s birthday) is actually a very strange Yom Tov given the debate between Hillel and Shamai about whether it is better to be born…or not.

Sarah is the Matriarch of the Jewish people. Tradition ascribes superiority to her Divine Inspiration over Avraham’s.

A Rosh HaShana Teaching Inspired by the Igeret HaTeshuvah of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi (excerpted below) You might be surprised to hear that addiction is as old as humanity itself…literally. The midrash picks up subtleties that are invisible to most readers. In the Genesis story it notes a glaring Freudian slip with grave significance. After Adam and Chava’s eating from the forbidden tree, the following conversation ensues between Adam and HaShem: And the HaShem called to Ada

We are defining shame as the discomfort produced when the ego feels diminished or deflated. We are defining sinat chinam as baseless hatred, meaning hatred that has no justification, that has no basis to it.

You might be surprised to know that Rosh HaShana is not only Day of Judgement and the Day of Remembrance, and the Day of Trua (the shofar blast) but it is also, says kabbala, the Day of Nesira (surgical uncoupling). This is a short teaching about that profound dimension of Rosh HaShana.