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Rabbi Shais Rishon
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Sep 11, 2026 ∙ 5 min
A Year of Fullness Rosh Hashanah 5787
5787 begins on Shabbat and unfolds as a shanah shleimah, the longest possible year on the Jewish calendar, with 385 days arranged into 55 complete weeks!
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Sep 3, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Still Standing, Still Becoming - Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech
“You are standing today, all of you, before Hashem your G’d.” These words arrive immediately after the Torah’s tokhachah, after Moshe describes exile, devastation, hunger, displacement, suffering, and the many forms that national catastrophe can take. Then the Torah gathers Israel before Moshe and says something remarkably and simply inspiring: Atem nitzavim hayom. You are standing today. We arrive at these parashot during Elul, with Rosh Hashanah approaching and the accounting of another...
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Aug 28, 2026 ∙ 3 min
The Head and the Tail - Parashat Ki Tavo
Ki Tavo’s tokhachah describes a world where people lose their homes, harvests, families, labor, and freedom, while RaMBa"M asks what human beings do with the abundance placed in their hands.
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