“I’m holding tight…take them out now!” During the Seven Days of Mourning after the passing of the former chief rabbi of Israel, HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu, in 2010, former IDF general and Knesset member Mr. Effi Eitam came to Jerusalem to fulfill the mitzvah of comforting mourners. While there in the […]
Daily Archives: May 31, 2022
1 Sivan (May 31) Rosh Chodesh Sivan 5 Sivan (June 3-4) Shabbat Naso (in Israel, outside of Israel Parshat Bamidbar), Torah Reading: Numbers 4:21-7:89; Haftarah: Judges 13:2-25; Pirkei Avot: Chapter 6 6 Sivan (June 4-5) Shavuot, festival celebrating the revelation of the Torah at Mt.Sinai. Shavuot also celebrates the Harvest, […]
Mystical Month of SIVAN
It is an important concept in Chasidut, that holidays are not only commemorations of past events, but each of us, together and separately, are actually reliving the same events again, now. This very much relates to the holiday of Shavuot, Chag Matan Torateynu, (the Giving of the Torah), on the […]