Yom Kippur, the ‘holiest’ day of the Jewish year. Millions of Jews worldwide get dressed up in white or their best attire and sit together in synagogue, hungry, lamenting all the bad things we have done as a community of flawed individuals. When the average person is asked about Yom Kippur, fasting is first on their mind. Fasting has become a central tenet of Yom Kippur practice, but what is a fast and why do we do it?
Three of the most common modern arguments for fasting include: Through the act of fasting we cleanse our bodiy and soul; we keep ...
Teva Ivri - Jewish Nature – social-environmental regeneration in Israel
"After the Holydays, all will be renewed
Regular weekdays will return, renewed,
Air, soil, rain and fire,
You too, you too
Will be renewed".
(Naomi Shemer)
"After the Holydays, all will be renewed" – thus tells us the late Naomi Shemer, one of Israel's leading songwriters, and indeed the season of the High Holydays creates a vivid sense of a "transition period" leading to change and renewal.
Rosh Hashanah, the ...
