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October 1, 2022 at 9:07 pm
Keep Some of your Tzedakah in Baltimore! Agudah Scrip is a Win-Win!
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As we are now in the Aseres Yemei Teshuva and in the midst of the Yamim Noraim, we can still hear the oft-quoted dictum reverberating in our ears: ותשובה ותפילה וצדקה מעבירין את רֹע הגזירה
"Repentance, prayer and charity averts the severity of the decree"
As you know, at this time of year it is customary to increase charitable giving.Click here to purchase Agudah Scrip through TA todayThe Agudah Scrip program, which Talmudical Academy of Baltimore participates in, is by far the easiest way to manage your charitable giving. It is safe, convenient, and approved by the Va'ad HaRabb...
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October 1, 2022 at 9:04 pm
Throughout October, local law enforcement in the Baltimore area will intensify efforts to curb traffic-related accidents for drivers and pedestrians. It's a part of a campaign called Look Alive.
The Look Alive campaign is sponsored by the Maryland Department of Transportation and the Baltimore Metropolitan Council.
Throughout October, local law enforcement will be issuing tickets to motorists and pedestrians who violate traffic safety regulations.
These fines can range from $40 to $500.
“We know visibility plays an important role in pedestrian safety,” said Chrissy Nizer, Administrator of the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration. “That’s why we’re reminding everyone to be alert and on the look-out for one another, especia...
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October 1, 2022 at 8:37 pm
Meaningful Minute founder and coordinator Nachi Gordon understands the power of one minute: every word a block with which you can build, every thought filled with potential to uplift - short, but so powerful.
In this Inside ArtScroll interview, Nachi discusses his Meaningful Minute book and his journey working to creating the Meaningful Minute platform, ensuring that the meaningful messages he transmits have the power to impact people’s lives positively.
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October 1, 2022 at 8:37 pm
The Kashrus of Home Chefs Part 2
Join Rabbi Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical Council, and the Executive Director of AKO, and Rabbi Yitzchok Hisiger as they discuss the recent Kol Koreh regarding home-based businesses.
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September 30, 2022 at 3:18 pm
If there is one prayer that resonates in the heart of every Jew, it is Kol Nidrei. The very tune is haunting yet enchanting, saddening yet uplifting. Yet, when one looks at the words – they seem to be anything but inspirational. Kol Nidrei is a form of Hataras Nedorim, revocation of vows. We begin the holiest day of the year by releasing ourselves from the vows of the past and proactively annulling the vows of the future. On a legal level this is very important as violating one’s vow is considered a severe transgression. We do whatever we can to repent and absolve ourselves of sin as we enter this sacred day. And still, we find ourselves confounded by a basic question: Of all the beautiful prayers we have in our liturgy, why begin the holiest day of the year with revocation of ...
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September 30, 2022 at 3:16 pm
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 30, 2022 - Our past sins need not be seen as devilish and fundamentally dirty, as the proverbially demons which we foreverchase. To the contrary, authentic teshuvah is an art of reframing, recasting uncomfortable failure as a welcome opportunity for personal growth. We do not castigate any aspects of ourselves, but rather redirect wayward passions of the past in new positive directions. All aspects of self are essentially beautiful, and able to find healthy, holy expression.
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September 30, 2022 at 3:15 pm
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 30, 2022 - Looking for an inspiring place for Yom Kippur? Join us at the Delta Hunt Valley.Chazzanim and Dynamic Speakers include:R’ Chaim KatzRabbi Yonah SklareR’ Yossi SonnenblickRabbi Shalom WeingotSpecial room cost: $99 per roomCall for details (leave a message) – 443-660-9132
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September 30, 2022 at 3:13 pm
With the onset of the new year, another shemittah year has concluded. Now that the year is over, the mitzvos regarding shemittah, for the most part, cease as well. Prohibitions regarding produce that grew in the shemittah year and maintain shemittah status still apply. The procurement of the post-shemittah esrog, therefore, takes on a different form depending on where you shop. In the absence of a pruzbul, as well, one is forbidden to collect a loan after shemittah has concluded. But these laws ultimately tie back to the actual shemittah year itself. However, there is one mitzvah connected to shemittah that still remains, although it is not in practice today - the mitzvah of hakhei...
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September 30, 2022 at 3:03 pm
It is my personal belief that everyone is entitled to their favorite Dad Joke. My personal favorite goes like this: I was trying to figure out why the ball was getting bigger and bigger. Then it hit me.
Whether you heard this one before or not, there is a tremendous lesson to be learned from this joke. According to the laws of physics, the closer something is to you, the bigger it appears. The same is true when it comes to the laws of spirituality; the closer something is to you, the bigger it appears.
The High Holiday season – starting with Elul and culminating with Yom Kippur – is a time when our Sages tell us that we are extremely close to Hashem. We daven more during these times, we think more during these times, we conduct ourselves with more spiritual sensit...
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September 30, 2022 at 3:03 pm
During the aseres yemei teshuvah is certainly when we should contemplate…
A Place to Pray
At the beginning of parshas Vayeitzei, the Torah teaches that Yaakov reached “the place,” vayifga bamakom, and he stopped there, because the sun had already set (see Rashi). The Gemara explains the word vayifga to mean he prayed. As Rashi notes, the word bamakom means that he stopped at a specific place, yet the Torah does not identify which place. Chazal explain that he stopped at the place where the akeidah of his father had occurred, which is the place from which Adam Harishon was created and the location of the mizbei’ach of the Beis Hamikdash, toward which we daven three times daily.
To quote the Rambam: “The location of the mizbei’ach is very e...
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September 30, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Washington, DC - Sept. 30, 2022 - Delegate Dalya Attar joins a Rosh Hashana celebration at the White House with President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her husband Douglas Emhoff!
This is the first Jewish High Holiday celebration at the White House.
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September 30, 2022 at 1:03 pm
Gale warnings and watches, along with coastal flood watches, are posted for the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River, which has spurred statewide preparations in Maryland as the remnants of Hurricane Ian move up the mid-Atlantic.
“We have been preparing on all fronts to deal with the remnants of the storm,” Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement Friday. “As we always emphasize with potential flooding events, it is critical for drivers to avoid rising waters — ‘turn around, don’t drown.’ We advise Marylanders to watch the forecast closely throughout the weekend and heed local warnings.”
According to the National Weather Service, steady rain is possible late Friday through Monday, accompanied by strong wind gusts. Beginning this afternoo...
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September 30, 2022 at 12:45 pm
Baltimore, MD – Sept. 30, 2022 - It is with regret that Baltimore Jewish Life (BJL) informs the community of the petira of Murray Daitchman, Z’L, father of Diane (Rabbi Yehoshua) Liff, Shoshie (Rabbi Jeffrey) Wohlgelernter, Jay (Karen) Daitchman and Laure, Z'L (Abe) Gutman.
Levayah is graveside 2:00PM, Sunday, Oct. 2, at United Hebrew Cemetery, 3979 Washington Blvd Halethorpe, MD, 21227.
Shiva in Baltimore will be observed on Sunday only until 9:30PM at 2200 Rogene Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21209.
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach
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September 30, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Members of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP) “Pikuach Nefesh” expressed shock and disbelief at Yair Lapid’s recent speech at the United Nations, in which he promoted the concept of “Two states for two peoples.”
“How blind and naïve can a person be to try to revive this idea, which has already caused so much suffering and disasters in Israel? After the plan has been almost forgotten, thank God, Lapid has to foolishly and irresponsibly raise it again at the UN, practically begging them to renew international pressure and sanctions against Israel,” the rabbis of the Congress wrote in a letter to Knesset members this week.
“Does anyone doubt what is about to happen as a result? International pressure, terrorist attacks carried out wi...
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September 30, 2022 at 11:51 am
The White House will announce new sanctions on Russia on Friday over its annexation of four breakaway regions in Ukraine.
The additional sanctions were confirmed by a White House official, NBC News reported.
Earlier on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that leaders of the four regions had signed agreements in Moscow to become part of Russia.
"In the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and in the regions of Lugansk and Donetsk there were referendums. Their results are known and show an unequivocal choice. Today we sign the agreement to accept them into the Russian Federation. This is the wish of more than a million people. This is their right that cannot be taken away, written in the UN constitution,” Putin said during a Kremlin speec...
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September 30, 2022 at 11:08 am
'Any inhumane regimes pose a threat to all humanity,' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial in his country's capital on Thursday to observe the 81st anniversary of the massacre.
The site commemorates the slaughter of Jews in a ravine near Kyiv by the Nazis and their collaborators on Yom Kippur and the day after in 1941.
Zelensky, who is Jewish, laid flowers and a memorial lamp next to the menorah in honor of the victims.
"Any inhumane regimes pose a threat to all humanity. Criminals who cause such tragedies must be punished so that dictators and tyrants are reluctant to repeat something similar in the future," Zelensky stated.
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September 30, 2022 at 11:05 am
Israeli security forces decided to suspend visits by Jews to Kever Yoseif HaTzadik in the Palestinian city of Nablus indefinitely due to the worsening security situation in the West Bank.
Kever Yoseif HaTzadik is located in Area A of the West Bank, officially under complete control of the West Bank's Palestinian Authority (PA), although the Israeli army conducts operations there. Israeli security services prohibit Israeli citizens from entering Area A without prior permission.
The religious site is revered as the final resting place of the biblical Yoseif HaTzadik, and Orthodox Jews' trips occur on at least a monthly basis.
Israelis' visits to Kever Yoseif HaTzadik almost always trigger violent clashes with Palestinians.
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September 30, 2022 at 11:05 am
State television said police arrested many 'rioters,' without giving figures
A human rights organization said Thursday that at least 83 people were killed in nearly two weeks as protests continue across several cities in Iran.
Mahsa Amini, 22, from the Iranian Kurdish town of Saqez, was arrested this month in Tehran for "unsuitable attire" by the morality police that enforces the Islamic Republic's strict dress code for women.
Her death sparked the first big show of opposition on Iran's streets since authorities crushed protests against a rise in gasoline prices in 2019.
"At least 83 people including children, are confirmed to have been killed in (the) #IranProtests," Iran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, said on Twitter.
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September 30, 2022 at 11:00 am
Israel expects increased immigration following Russia's announcement of the mobilization of reserve troops
Israel’s Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman and Aliyah and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata are expected to present the cabinet on Sunday with a plan costing roughly $25 million, which will be granted unconditionally, for the reception of Russians entitled to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return.
Following Russia's announcement of the mobilization of reserve troops last week for the war in Ukraine, Israel expects an increase in immigration, with an estimated 4,500 Jews arriving in the Jewish state from Moscow over the next three months.
Israel's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday: "An Israeli citizen who also...
