One deep and powerful connection is made by a commentator that links teshuva and geulah, Redemption, in profound fashion. Of course, the existential question exists as to whether teshuva by the nation ...

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Here’s a question for you. What is not over the heavens, not over the seas but in our mouths and our hearts to do? This is how Parshat Nitzavim describes the mitzvah of teshuvah, of penitence. It is ...

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PARASHAT VAYELECH: The initial foundations of teshuva This is not a time of self-flagellation, but our chance to take a realistic look at with what spiritual food we nourish our soul.

Growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Rabbi Moshe Cohen only went to shul twice a year: on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. “My upbringing wasn’t very Jewish,” he said. “There was a one-size-fits-all ...