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Earlier this week, people living in the Northern Hemisphere, experienced the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. It coincided with the Great Conjunction – when Saturn and Jupiter appeared to be touching in the sky. The last time we were able to witness this was in 1623, approximately 400 years ago. For weeks I anticipated what astrologers have acclaimed to be the beginning of a shift to greater focus on others as well as an emphasis on innovation and reform. While I am not an astronomer nor an astrologer, I searched for meaning behind the confluence of these 2 events. “Today, is the day that we will turn from darkness to lightness,” I suggested to my clients.
Kodesh Press: Combining Inspiration With Rigorous Judaic Scholarship By Elizabeth Kratz | December 10, 2020
Since Rabbi Alec Goldstein launched Kodesh Press in 2013, the publishing house has brought to market more than 50 titles of Jewish interest from a growing group of approximately 30 authors. His first-ever author was Teaneck’s Rabbi Hayyim Angel, and Kodesh has since become the publisher of choice for two regular Jewish Link columnists: Mitchell First and Rabbi Gil Student. Kodesh has also published books by such luminaries as Englewood’s Rabbi Zev Reichman, Manhattan’s Rabbi Allen Schwartz and Riverdale’s Rabbi Gidon Rothstein, among many others.
Originally from New Rochelle and living now in Teaneck where Kodesh Press is currently based Goldstein received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 2012. That followed his bachelor’s degree in French language and literature from Yeshiva