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First October 7th Anniversary Same Week as Yom Kippur

That’s how it falls this year, 2024, Yom Kippur later in the same week as the first secular-year anniversary of October 7th. We did a Torah-Tuesday class this week exploring concepts and messages to be learned from this. We’ll try … Read the rest

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Thoughts especially for this Yom Kippur 5785/2024

Preparing and sharing some inspiration, messages and relevance for this particular Yom Kippur 5785/2024. For past years Yom-Kippur inspiration see our Yom Kippur Collection

OCT 7TH IN SAME WEEK AS YOM KIPPUR
That’s how it falls this year, 2024, … Read the rest

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The Mets – and Rosh Hashanah – in October 2024

So as of Erev Rosh Hashanah 2024, the Mets will play at least one game in October.

This year (2024) all the Jewish Fall holidays are in October, you might consider them to be as the playoff season in some … Read the rest

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Foliage Change at Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah 5785/2024 falls late this year. All the Jewish Fall holidays are in October this year, including Rosh Hashanah, which is always always in September.

This has foliage implications! Usually the change in foliage starts after Rosh Hashanah, sometimes … Read the rest

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Erev Rosh Hashanah at the Post Office, Rosh Hashanah with National Grid

We’ve been working on a special mailing to Shabbos House donors in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah 5785/2024, and for various reasons we went with first-class postage instead of the bulk-mail rate. We took one completed package and … Read the rest

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Why This Rosh Hashanah (5785/2024) is Different

No doubt, each year is special and unique and each Rosh Hashanah has a quality or dimension (and divine revelation) all its own, as Alter Rebbe emphasizes in his Tanya-Iggeret HaKodesh. But this Rosh Hashanah 5785, just under a year … Read the rest

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Lessons from the Pagers Operation

The Pager/Beeper story was really quite something, it was so extraordinary, it seemed to be the stuff of science-fiction or fanciful spy movies.

But the Baal Shem Tov taught that there are spiritual life messages in all things that we … Read the rest

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The Shofar in Our Shed

This September or the Hebrew month of Elul, we hosted the “Let HERE Be Light” Tour run by Chabad on Campus on 40+ campuses around the country. As did Chabad in Clinton, serving students at Hamilton College. After Hamilton they … Read the rest

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Netanyanu UN Blessing & Curse Speech in Parsha Vayelech

Israel’s Prime Minister Bini Netanyahu came to New York City to address the United Nations Session 79 (2024) amidst the ongoing war in Gaza and escalation with Hezbollah in Lebanon. In his speech he held up two illustrative cards, one … Read the rest

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Family Weekend Just Before Rosh Hashanah

This Fall 2024 UAlbany’s Family Weekend falls just a few days before Rosh Hashanah. What’s the message, lesson, connection?

If you look at a Rosh Hashanah prayer service, there are two striking aspects, and you can say that one is … Read the rest

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