Elul

Oct 22

Drasha Kol Nidrei from Rabbi Daniele Touati

Drasha Kol Nidré – 11 octobre 2024, KEREN OR Quand votre propre fille d’arrêter d’être en rassra juste avant Kippour il faut bien...

Sep 23, 2022

28th Elul -Gifts from our friends

Gifts from our Friend ודודי – ומתנות The month of Elul is characterized by the “king in the field” metaphor: we can easily address our...

Sep 22, 2022

27th Elul : Stepping forward is the motto

The new year hides in itself a striving for relationships. The Hebrew letters with which the year 5783 are written are ת-ש-פ-ג. The word...

Sep 21, 2022

26th Elul -Yizkor - we remember and God remembers

TALES FROM THE RABBI’S DESK. YIZKOR. I like Yizkor. That time in the service when we remember those who once lived - and who no longer...

Sep 20, 2022

25th Elul :When we help the poor we help ourselves

When we help the poor, we help ourselves לי = לאביונים One day, a Rabbi announced an event under the infamous name "Shabbat for the...

Sep 19, 2022

24th Elul: All the world is a Narrow Bridge...

RABBI NACHMAN As the shofar announced the end of Yom Kippur last year who could have predicted the state of the world a year later as we...

Sep 19, 2022

23rd Elul Days Are Scrolls, Write on them what you want to be remembered

Days are scrolls, write on them what you want to be remembered Bachya ibn Pakudah (c1050 – 1120) In one of the great cartoons produced by...

Sep 19, 2022

22nd Elul The Selichot of Library Books

22 The Selichot of Library Books I grew up in a poor family; we owned few possessions of note beyond our books. Every wall was covered...

Sep 19, 2022

21st Elul - nothing is so precious as time

Yom Kippur is no longer a day simply of general and ritual atonement. It is a day for us to restructure our lives, to reconcile our...

Sep 16, 2022

20th Elul Two Great Lights

Half way through the days of creation, two great lights were put into the firmament to act as signs for the seasons, days and years. They...