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And You Shall Afflict Your Souls.... |
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3 | (1) |
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3 | (1) |
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Is This the Fast I Have Chosen?---It Wasn't My Turn |
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4 | (1) |
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What Is Life Without Teshuvah? |
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5 | (1) |
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5 | (2) |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (1) |
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Introduction to the Amidah---God's Presence Vibrates on Our Lips |
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10 | (1) |
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Moving toward the Light of God |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (3) |
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Kol Nidre---Our Vows and Promises |
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15 | (12) |
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Kol Nidre: Nothing Affects the Human Being More Than Music |
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17 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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Can a Sinner Dare to Pray? |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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The Jew Must Stand for Something |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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Blessing the Children Yom Kippur Eve |
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21 | (1) |
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Prayer of the Hidden Jews |
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22 | (1) |
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Kol Nidre: Drawn into Heaven's Womb |
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22 | (1) |
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Kol Nidrei: Why Three Times? |
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22 | (1) |
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Whose Vows---Ours or God's? |
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23 | (1) |
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Who Are the Avaryanim? Permission to Pray with the Iberians (?) |
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23 | (1) |
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Forgiveness on Kol Nidrei |
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24 | (3) |
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27 | (36) |
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The Capture and Release of the Yetzer Ha-Ra |
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29 | (2) |
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Is Reciting Al Het Reason to Rejoice? |
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31 | (1) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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Dibbur Peh ... Leshon Ha-ra---Even If True, Gossip Is Still a Sin |
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32 | (3) |
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Gossip: A Chronic Infectious Disease |
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35 | (1) |
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Al Het: The Need for Community |
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36 | (1) |
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Ashamnu ... Bagadnu ...---Neither Repentance Nor Confession |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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Yetzer Ha-Ra---For the Sin of the Evil Impulse |
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38 | (1) |
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Lashon Ha-Ra---Traditional Sources |
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38 | (1) |
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Lashon Ha-Ra---Be Careful of Unnecessary Words! |
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39 | (1) |
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On Justice, for All Children |
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40 | (1) |
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Lashon Ha-Ra: Judaism Is, Above All, a Love of Language |
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40 | (1) |
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Ve-Khof Et Yitzrenu Le-Hishtabed Lakh---Direct Our Impulses [Yetzer]... |
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41 | (1) |
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We Humans Are Cracked Vessels: Ashamnu, Bagadnu, Gazalnu---We Have Sinned, We Have Dealt Treacherously |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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The Consequences of Sin and the Meaning of Evil |
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44 | (1) |
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Let Them Fix Their Errors |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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Sins of the Tongue--- ... B'Dibbur Peh, ...B'Siah Siftotenu, ... B'Leshon Ha-Ra |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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Ve-al Dibbur Peh ... Sins of the Tongue |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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Watch Out for the ``Little'' Sins |
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51 | (1) |
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Al Het for Our Age of Violence |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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Al Het---Is It Possible to Change? |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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Al Het ... B'timhon Levav---For the Sin ... of Confusion of Values |
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55 | (1) |
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Sins Are Parts of Us Yet to Complete |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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... B'Dibbur Peh---Leprosy of Irresponsible Speech |
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57 | (1) |
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Al Het ... B'timhon Levav---By Confusion of Values, by Spoiling Our Planet |
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58 | (1) |
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... B'timhon Levav---By Confusion of Values |
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59 | (1) |
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60 | (1) |
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Al Het---Yom Kippur, a Loving Laundromat |
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61 | (2) |
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63 | (22) |
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65 | (1) |
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Forgiving as an Essential Human Attribute---To Make Peace with Ourselves, and with Others, to Move Forward with Hope |
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66 | (1) |
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Sweetening the Evil in Yourself |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (1) |
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Let's Forgive Each Other---Unlocking the Gates of Forgiveness: A Personal Prayer |
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70 | (1) |
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Vidui---An Annotated Report |
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71 | (1) |
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Pardon Our Iniquity and Our Sin (Exodus 34:9)---Can We Pardon Without Apology? |
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72 | (1) |
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Forgiveness in Hebrew Scriptures |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (1) |
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75 | (3) |
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Adonai, Adonai---The Thirteen Attributes of God's Mercy: Why Is the Ineffable Name Repeated? |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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81 | (4) |
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Hear, O Israel: God, Love and Learning |
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85 | (20) |
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87 | (1) |
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When Words Enter the Heart |
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87 | (1) |
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Who Will Recite the Shema with Our Grandchildren? |
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87 | (2) |
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89 | (2) |
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Radiance and Light---Pirkei Avot 2:13 |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (1) |
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Shema---The Lord Is One: Hear, O Israel, Adonai Is Our God, Adonai Alone |
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94 | (1) |
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Shema---And You Shall Love Adonai Your God. . . . |
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94 | (1) |
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Ve-Shenantam Le-Venekha---The Tradition of Study |
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94 | (1) |
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Teach Them Diligently to Your Children---Jacob and Esau |
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95 | (1) |
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Ve-sheenantam Le-vanekha---Educate, Educate, Educate |
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95 | (1) |
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Shema---Teach Them Well to Your Children |
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96 | (1) |
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On the Doorposts of Your House---Two Approaches to Life |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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You Shall Teach Them Diligently to Your Children---Weaving the Loom of Future Years |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (1) |
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How Fortunate Are You, Rabbi Akiva |
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100 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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Widening Our Circle of Compassion |
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101 | (1) |
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The Calming, Nourishing Effect of Shema Yisrael |
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101 | (1) |
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Shema: God and God's World |
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102 | (1) |
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I Will Love the Lord My God |
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103 | (1) |
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Sh'ma: ... Ve-shenantam le-vanekha---A Jew Must Learn! |
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103 | (1) |
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Sh'ma---Teach Them Diligently to Your Children |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (6) |
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Live, Read, Grow, and Be a Mensch! |
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107 | (1) |
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Avinu Malkenu, Kotvaynu Be-Sefer Z'khuyot---Don't Just Ask---Tell God: Send Me! |
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107 | (1) |
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Avinu Malkenu---A Tenacious Link |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (3) |
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Roots and Themes from the Torah |
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111 | (34) |
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113 | (1) |
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Teshuvah and the Sacred Year |
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114 | (1) |
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Inclusion in the Covenant |
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115 | (1) |
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Fasting: Who Can and Who Has To? |
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116 | (1) |
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Yom Kippur and the ``Scapegoat''---Seeking Meaning for the Strange Ritual of the Scapegoat |
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116 | (4) |
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120 | (2) |
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The Goat's Journey to the Desert |
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122 | (1) |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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Celebrating Yom Kippur in the Past |
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124 | (1) |
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Kohen Gadol Could Not Enter Holy of Holies Wearing Gold |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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Parshat Nitzavim: Choose Life |
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127 | (1) |
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Deciding for God or for Azazel |
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128 | (1) |
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The Basis of Sin: Self-Deception |
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129 | (1) |
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Celebrating and Revealing the Invisible---Yom Kippur Torah Reading |
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129 | (3) |
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Torah Reading---Yom Kippur |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (2) |
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135 | (1) |
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When God Is High Above, Awe Comes; When God Is Close, Love Comes---Peace to the Far, Peace to the Close (Isaiah 57:19) |
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135 | (1) |
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Is Not This the Fast I Have Chosen ... to Feed the Hungry, Clothe the Naked.... |
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136 | (1) |
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What Does God Ask of Women? |
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137 | (1) |
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The High Priest: An Eager Servant Awaiting Rebirth |
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138 | (1) |
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Just When.... An Introduction in Poetry, to the Haftarah of Yom Kippur Morning |
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139 | (2) |
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Shalom Shalom La-rahok Ve-la-karov |
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141 | (2) |
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143 | (2) |
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T'shuvah, T'fillah, T'zedakkah (Repentance, Prayer and Acts of Righteousness) |
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145 | (26) |
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Maimonides' Eight Degrees of Charity |
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147 | (1) |
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I Am Canceling My Word and Fulfilling Yours---The Thirteen Divine Attributes |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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Kedoshim Tih'yu---Be Holy! |
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149 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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Like a Fading Flower, a Passing Shadow, a Fugitive Cloud and a Vanishing Dream |
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150 | (1) |
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U-teshuvah---How to Cleanse Ourselves |
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151 | (1) |
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U-Tefilah ... Can Prayer Heal? |
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152 | (1) |
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How Prayer Leads to Morality |
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152 | (1) |
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Teshuvah: A New Factor in the Divine Relationship |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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Teshuvah Is Not Repentance, Tefillah Is Not Prayer, and Tzedakah Is Not Charity |
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156 | (2) |
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Teshuvah, Tefilah and Zedakah---Judaism Is a Religion of Action More Than Thought |
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158 | (1) |
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... U-tzedakah---Make Your Home a Wellspring of Charity |
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158 | (1) |
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Tzedakah: How Important a Value for Us? |
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159 | (1) |
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Tzedakah Lines in Our Personal Budgets |
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159 | (1) |
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Zedakah: Money, Money, Money |
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160 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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... U-tzedakah---There Is a Healing Power in Doing Good |
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162 | (1) |
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U'Tzedakah---God Makes Opportunities for Redemption |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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Ve-tiftah et Sefer Ha-Zikhronot---You Record and Seal, Count and Measure.... |
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164 | (1) |
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Repentance, Prayer and Tzedakah |
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165 | (3) |
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168 | (1) |
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Man and Beast Will Be Saved by God |
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169 | (1) |
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Repenting for Those Who Cannot |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (12) |
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Ve-khol Ma-aminim---Emulating God's Attributes |
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173 | (1) |
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173 | (2) |
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175 | (1) |
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Ve-khol Ma-aminim---We All Hope ... We Trust |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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Ve-khol Ma-aminim---All Believe |
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177 | (1) |
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Ve-khol Ma-aminim---Defining Faith, the Jewish Way |
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177 | (1) |
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Ve-khol Ma-aminim---Trying to Believe |
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178 | (1) |
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179 | (4) |
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183 | (20) |
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185 | (1) |
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Time Out---Life Is Temporary |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (1) |
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Together We Can Stand Anything |
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188 | (1) |
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Driving Sorrow Out of Your Life |
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189 | (1) |
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A Special Prayer for Those Not Saying Yizkor for Parents |
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189 | (1) |
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The Plan of the Master Weaver |
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190 | (1) |
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Still Warm from an Old Jacket |
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191 | (1) |
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So Too Does the Soul Evolve.... |
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192 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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From Beyond the Grave Our Loved Ones Reach Out and Touch Us |
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193 | (1) |
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A Yizkor Guided Imagery Exercise |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (2) |
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Lesson from the Titanic---Love Flows Continuously |
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197 | (1) |
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Judaism's Advice for a Meaningful Life |
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198 | (2) |
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200 | (1) |
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A Short Visit---For a Divine Purpose |
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200 | (1) |
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The Common Lot of All of Us |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (2) |
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203 | (24) |
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Punished for Being Jewish |
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205 | (1) |
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A Martyr's Prayer for the New Year |
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205 | (1) |
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A Kaddish for the Children |
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206 | (3) |
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There Is One Synagogue Left in Kiev |
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209 | (1) |
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Opening Ceremonies |
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210 | (1) |
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Remembering, Not Forgetting |
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210 | (1) |
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We Will Outlive You, Globochnik! |
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211 | (1) |
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Martyrology---The 614th Commandment |
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211 | (1) |
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A Jew Cannot Be Without God |
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212 | (1) |
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An Elegy for the Six Million |
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212 | (2) |
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214 | (1) |
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A Memoir of the Yom Kippur War |
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214 | (3) |
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My People Are Being Consumed |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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218 | (2) |
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Looking into Our Own Hearts |
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220 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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Martyrology---9/11 and Lamentations |
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222 | (2) |
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Before the Kaddish: At the Funeral of Those Who Were Killed in the Land of Israel |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (2) |
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The Service of the High Priest: In the Temple Times and Today |
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227 | (14) |
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229 | (1) |
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Avodah: The Story of the High Priest |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (1) |
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Being Better---Serving Better |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (1) |
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Avodah---For Whom Do the Priests Pray? |
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232 | (1) |
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Avodah---Community Service |
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233 | (1) |
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Avodah: Community Service---Serving Others, We Serve Ourselves |
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233 | (1) |
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The Ritual of the Goats---We Are Left with Words.... |
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233 | (1) |
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Through Service to God [Avodah] I Add to the Good of the World |
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234 | (1) |
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Reciting the Avodah in the Diaspora |
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235 | (1) |
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Avodah: We Are Defined by Our Connections |
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236 | (1) |
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236 | (1) |
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237 | (1) |
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Giving Generously of Ourselves |
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237 | (1) |
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Rise with Strength Renewed |
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238 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (2) |
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241 | (26) |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (1) |
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(Alternative) Yom Kippur Chant |
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247 | (1) |
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247 | (2) |
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We Are Clay in the Potter's Hands |
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249 | (1) |
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Teshuvah: Forgiveness Walks |
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250 | (1) |
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La-Brit Habet---Recall Your Covenant |
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251 | (1) |
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Never Lose Hope: Uve-khen ... tikvah le-dor-shekha |
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251 | (1) |
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Ve-Yaya-su Kulam Agudah Ehat---The Importance of Community |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (1) |
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The Origins of Yom Kippur |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (1) |
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May We Rise Along with Our Prayers |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (1) |
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U'v'khen Ten Kavod Le-amekha---Give Dignity to Your People---Kavod: Honor Connected to Our Deepest Selves |
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256 | (1) |
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Kavanah for the Amidah---Devekut: Clinging to God |
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257 | (1) |
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Introduction to the Amidah |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (1) |
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Hayom---The Opportunity of the Present Moment |
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259 | (2) |
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261 | (1) |
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Aleinu---The Kabbalistic Origins of Tikkun Olam |
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261 | (1) |
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Sim Shalom---A Prayer for Peace |
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262 | (1) |
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Yaaleh---Let Us Rise in Torah Knowledge: Flying Words |
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262 | (2) |
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Ve-yaa-su Khulam Agudah Ehat---Gathered Embers Generate Heat |
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264 | (1) |
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V'tivneha M'herah Ut'gadel K'vodah---Rebuild and Glorify Your Land |
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264 | (1) |
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Piyyutim: Liturgical Poetry |
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265 | (2) |
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Jonah and Human Responsibility |
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267 | (20) |
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Jonah: Running Away from Ourselves |
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269 | (1) |
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The Book of Jonah: A Lesson on Happiness |
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269 | (1) |
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270 | (1) |
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271 | (3) |
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274 | (1) |
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The Book of Jonah: A Summary |
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275 | (3) |
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Why Are You Sleeping? Mah Lekha, Nirdam?---Jonah 1:6 |
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278 | (4) |
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Of What People Are You?---I Am a Hebrew (Jonah 1:8-9) |
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282 | (1) |
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283 | (1) |
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The Book of Jonah---Whose Story Are We Telling? |
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284 | (3) |
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287 | (16) |
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The Gates Are Open---God Accepts All |
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289 | (1) |
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Pidyonenu Ad Arev---May Redemption Come to Us at Dusk |
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289 | (1) |
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Walking through Different Kinds of Doors---Judge Us Not for What We Were, but for What We Can Be |
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290 | (1) |
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290 | (1) |
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N'eilah---The Closing of the Gates |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (1) |
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Closing Gates, New Beginning |
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292 | (2) |
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294 | (1) |
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The Gates Clang Shut---Neilah |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (2) |
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A Meditation before Neilah |
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Jerusalem Rebuilt---This Year in Jerusalem! |
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Next Year in Jerusalem---Guide Our Steps |
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Suspended between Heaven and Earth |
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La-shanah Ha-ba-ah (Ha-zot!) B'yerushalayim---Whatever We Have Lost, We Can Find in Jerusalem |
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La-shanah Ha-ba-ah B'Yerushalayim---How Seriously Do We Mean It? |
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Moshe Dayan at the Kotel---This Year in Yerushalayim! |
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Next Year in Yerushalayim!---Finding a Way to Return |
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Next Year in Yerushalayim |
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La-shanah Ha-ba-ah B'yerushalayim!---To Jerusalem |
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La-shanah Ha-ba-ah B'Yerushalayim |
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