Yom Kippur

Yitzchak Blau and Michael Broyde respond to recent articles that have driven conversation.

Eliezer Finkelman discusses the meaning of perfect repentance.

With Yom Kippur in view, Shlomo Zuckier presents a close reading of Isaiah 58.

Moshe Kurtz explores halakhic and hashkafic considerations surrounding bringing young children to shul.

  Zach Truboff In 1933, as the month of Elul approached, the Jewish people faced a frightening array of dangers. That year, Hitler consolidated power as...

Man’s actions—even those that seem fleeting and insignificant—can have an impact, positive or negative. Oren Oppenheim explores themes of u-Netaneh Tokef

Pressed for time, people often skip reciting the korbanot section of the morning prayers. With the High Holidays approaching, Judah Kerbel makes the case that the korbanot are far more central and halakhically significant to our prayers than we often realize.

This is Not a Poem and other soon-to-be-published high holiday poems by Yehiel Poupko.

The Ne’ilah prayer, which we recite only once a year, clearly represents a moment of great religious drama, but its precise nature and purpose are somewhat mysterious. Alan Jotkowitz presents four different models for understanding Ne’ilah, drawing upon the teachings of Rav Yehuda Amital, Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, and Rav Ya’akov Medan.

As Yom Kippur approaches, Bruce Black's poem touches on the simple power of a humble and earnest request for forgiveness.