The secret advantage of the synagogue, and can others help us repent sincerely?
Ki Tavo: Can Self-Reflection be a Communal Exercise?
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Yom Kippur: Personalized Repentance
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During the High Holidays we read the exhortations to repentance of the prophets Hosea, Isaiah, and Jonah. Are they all discussing the same repentance, or are there different types of repentance for different people?
An address about repentance and what type of repentance is right for me.
Acharei: What’s Between the Lines?
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The Talmud records a bizarre argument between the High Priest and the Chief Rabbis. For generations, readers have been puzzled: Is that behavior befitting the most distinguished members of the Jewish people? In 1986, the Rebbe explained it's deeper meaning.
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Why Did They Cry?
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In the Second Temple era, tensions between the Sadducees and the Pharisees would come to a head when the leading rabbis would coach the High Priest for his worship on Yom Kippur.
They would all leave in tears. What exactly was going on?