Young Israel of Phoenix

Tag: teshuva

  • Rebbetzin’s Reflection Haazinu

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    Rebbitzen Rachel

    The Art of Listening When we spend time with family and friends, we often have so much to catch up on that we end up in an “everyone is talking at once” scenario, and I often find myself contributing to this potentially rude behavior. We are all so excited to…

  • Rebbetzin’s Reflection Nitzavim

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    Rebbitzen Rachel

    The Heart of the Matter Parshat Nitzavim is traditionally read on the Shabbos immediately preceding Rosh Hashanah. In a parsha consisting of only forty pesukim, the Hebrew word for heart (lev—לֵב) appears an astonishing eleven times and is heavily concentrated within the pesukim of teshuva (Devarim 30:1–10), where it appears…

  • Pulse of the Parsha – Ki Savo 5786

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    Yisroel Isaacs

    Trembling and the Table In chapter 34 of Moby Dick, Herman Melville describes two dining rooms aboard Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod. At Ahab’s table, the officers sit in near-paralyzed silence: “They were as little children before Ahab… their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man’s knife… I…