Yom Kippur

Aton Holzer offers an existential perspective on the transition from Yom Kippur to Sukkot and applies some Heideggerian concepts to the festival of gathering.

Yaakov Jaffe examines Yehudah Ha-Levi's High Holiday poem "Yashen, Al Teradam"

In this essay, Yehoshua November presents a model for preparing for the High Holidays

Yom Kippur as a mother, explored by The Lehrhaus's Leslie Ginsparg Klein

  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...

Yosef Lindell recounts the controversy surrounding different attempts at translating the Tishrei prayers.

Marina Zilbergerts explores the idea that Jonah does not repent in his Biblical narrative, instead emphasizing the value of human agency.

After six months suspended between quarantine, isolation, and uncertainty, it’s natural to want to run away from home, especially as Yom Kippur looms and we realize it’s time for a change. But, as Matthew Nitzanim explains, this understandable reaction would miss the point of Teshuvah: everything we need to work on is right here, wherever it is we find ourselves.

Beth Kissileff on the book of Jonah and its relevance on Sukkot.

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.