Ten Minutes of Torah

Leading a Passover Seder: The Freedom to be Creative!

Rabbi Vicki Tuckman, z"l

I do not have enough fingers and toes on which to count the various kinds of Passover seders I have participated in or led. So many have been close to my heart, building and reinforcing my Jewish identity year after year.

The Rosh HaShanah Amidah

Rabbi Richard S. Sarason, Ph.D.

The basic Rosh HaShanah Amidah is an elaboration of that for the Festivals. Both have seven benedictions, as on Shabbat—the first three and last three of the daily Amidah, with the Kedushat hayom (“Sanctity of the Day”) benediction in the middle.1 On both Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, the Kedushat hayom benediction builds on the text for the Festivals:

Galilee Diary: Purim

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein
Perhaps the real reason Purim is so popular here is that it takes place somewhere else, in the Diaspora – a place with which we Israelis have a love–hate relationship.