Prayer Lesson 209: Ten Tal Umatar: The mystery of December 4
In the weekday Amidah, in the prayer for a good [...]
Prayer Lesson 208: Modim/Thanksgiving—Blessing 17 of the weekday Amidah/Blessing 5 of the Shabbat Amidah
Brother David Stendl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, is one of the world’s [...]
Prayer Lesson 207: –“The angels sweetly sing”–The first blessing before the Sh’ma
For the uninitiated, our siddur sounds like this: “Blah blah [...]
Prayer Lesson 206: The Prayer for Our Country
I have often been approached by people who are unhappy [...]
Prayer Lesson 205: Az Yashir, The Song of the Sea
Near the end of pesukei d’zimrah we recite the Song of the [...]
Rabbi Wolkoff’s Kol Nidre Sermon – 5785
From the beginning of time, people have been lying about [...]
Rabbi Wolkoff’s Day 2 Rosh Hashana Sermon – 5785
Egypt Babylonia Greece Rome Byzantium Medieval Christendom Medieval Islam Nazism [...]
Rabbi Wolkoff’s Rosh Hashana Day 1 Sermon – 5785
“Son,” my father of blessed memory said to me, “I [...]
Prayer lesson 204: Geshem (the prayer for rain) and the Collapse of Time
“Does anybody really know what time it is?” the great [...]
Prayer lesson 203 Hoshana – The Audacity of Prayer
We could be forgiven for thinking that prayer is essentially [...]