As a child, I anticipated Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, with fear and dread. It meant fasting until my head pounded, spending countless hours at a shul service devoid of spiritual meaning,
“The giver gets more than the recipient. The recipient acquires something material and limited. The one who gives, however, acquires a good and pure heart.” Rabbi Yosef Yozel Hurwitz, the Alter of Nov
Like many Jewish children, I first learned the Shema in my early years of Hebrew school. For seven decades, I have spoken its words in Hebrew—at services, in private prayer and silently in my heart: S
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