Aspaqlaria

Keeping Torah and Values in Focus

Monthly Archive: September 2013 – ט׳ בתשרי תשע״ד

Who in his time? 0

Yahrzeits / Yom Tov

Who in his time?

There were two lines from the Shemoneh Esrei of Rosh haShanah that particularly spoke to me this year — “mekhalkeil chaim bechesed – Who sustains the living with lovingkindness”, and the line from Unsaneh...

From Qeren to Shofar 0

Holidays / Teshuvah

From Qeren to Shofar

(Updated after Rosh haShanah 5774 with idea from the Tanchuma.) The Ramban, in his Derashah leRosh haShanah, writes that a shofar is a keli, a formal utensil in the halachic sense. For this reason,...