This week’s parsha opens with the reunion between Yaakov and Eisav. As Yaakov prepares for this momentous event, the Torah outlines three different strategies that he employs towards ensuring a ...

Formal prayer, that musical and lyrical intersection between this world and the other, is as much science as art, as least for the cantor. There are rules, equations, let alone laws, but “most people ...

It all started on a school trip to Toronto. I’d started davening every morning since the summer and I wanted to continue this on my school trip. As I contemplated how to explain davening to my ...

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This might end up as a hodge-podge; hopefully not so jumbled that you will be able to follow the various points... The gemara in B'rachot that states that T'FILOT AVOT TIKNUM, that our patri- archs ...

One of the greatest challenges of educators is how to teach davening to our children? How do we infuse respect and appreciation into the daily prayers? Many of our children are turned off by davening.

It must have been quite a scene, and quite a neighborhood. Boys as young as 3 waking up at 5 a.m. with their fathers and brothers and walking to their shuls for the morning prayers. Hundreds of men — ...

Join us at Temple Beth Hillel of South Windsor on as Tuesday evening, June 13th at 7:00 pm as The Adult Education Committee presents “Davening Do’s and Don’ts with Cantor Scott Harris. If you were ...