The 13 Principles: # 11: God is Just.
The Eleventh principle of Judaism asserts that God is Just. He rewards those who keep His commandments and punishes those who transgress them.
In the...
TEFILA (Jewish prayer): Introduction.
Praying is an innate tendency of any human being who believes in God. Since God is all-powerful, merciful and compassionate, man would naturally make...
The 13 Principles of Judaism: # 10. God knows everything.
The Tenth principle asserts that God is omniscient, i.e., He knows everything.
His knowledge, obviously, is completely unlike our knowledge. We acquire knowledge while "His knowledge is...
Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (or Hefes) 1663-1711
Rabbi Moshe ben Gershom (1663-1711) known as Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (of Hefes) was a rabbinic scholar from Italy. Born in Trieste, raised in Venice,...
ROSH CHODESH CHESHVAN
√ Rosh Chodesh -the beginning of the Hebrew month- is a semi festive day. The hierarchal order of the Jewish festive days is: Shabbat,...
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Kapparot, with chicken or with Tsedaqa?
In many communities, there is a Minhag of doing Kapparot. What is the best way to do it: with chicken or with money for...
Teshuba and blame displacement
In Maimonides' opinion Teshuba consists of three steps:
1. hakarat hachet, or admission of our personal responsibility .
2. viduy, or confession with sincere remorse for...
HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:10: Unilateral forgiveness
Yesterday we explained that when somebody apologizes for an offense or for a wrong thing he or she did to us, we should be...
HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:1. Credibility and repentance
What is considered a perfect repentance? When one is faced with the same opportunity to repeat the original transgression, but now he does not...
