Our July newsletter covers the entire summer, and will carry us almost to the beginning of the High Holidays. “Too soon!” I hear you cry. “The summer has just begun, and already you’re talking repentance?!” But this year, through a quirk of the Jewish calendar, the autumn holidays are very early – with Rosh Hashanah Continue Reading »
We’ve been singing the verse, Achat sha’alti from psalm 27 since the beginning of Elul, a full month before Rosh Hashanah, and it will remain with us through Simchat Torah at the end of Sukkot. But what does it really mean?
