Climate change and Rosh Hashanah? I can’t consider the two together without returning, as I do so often, to the opening chapter of Torah, which describes the fundamental nature of the world and our place in it, according to our ancestors’ understanding. The enduring power of Genesis 1 attests to our deep identification with its
Fifty years ago, Yom Kippur and the Yamim Noraim took on new meaning. The term “Yamim Noraim” connotes the awesomeness of the High Holiday period and the fear that our lives hang in the balance. This feeling was especially palpable on Yom Kippur fifty years ago both individually and nationally. In just its third decade of […]
For more than sixty years, Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, z’l, was a trusted secretary and a member of the inner-circle of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. A kind talmid chacham and master educator, he was an author of dozens of fundamental articles and books on Chabad philosophy, as well as the first translation of Sefer haTanya into […]