Essays: Holidays

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Pesach

Making Pesach With our Hands (Ideas 106)

Nightvision (Ideas 90)

The Fear to Sing (ideas 6)

 

Yom haShoah, Yom haAtzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim

Surviving the Holocaust ((Ideas 17)

Of Wheat and Bread: Observations for Yom ha'Atzmaut (Ideas 79)

The Public and the Private Me (Ideas 91)

Weathermen, Prophets and Independence (Ideas 122)

Jerusalem and Yerushalayim (ideas 81) 

 

Sefirat haOmer and Shavouot

Celebration in the Shadow of Death (Ideas 107)

Sefirat haOmer and Pesach's Missing Eighth Day (Ideas 80)

Faust, Immortality and Kabbalat haTorah (ideas 34) 

Why Weren't the Non-Jews Under the Mountain?



Tisha be'Av

Consolation Prizes (ideas 38)

He Who Laughs Last (Ideas 10)

Judea Capta (Ideas 48)

 

Elul and the High Holidays

When Does the Fun Start: Observations for Elul (Ideas 111)

Calling All Souls: The Eloquent Shofar (Ideas 97

Endings, Beginnings and Sins of Omission (Ideas 137)

Self Interest, Spirituality and Rosh Hashanah (Ideas 113)

The New Year and the Roots of Teshuva (Ideas 85)

Have No Fear (Ideas 20)

 

Sukkot and Simchat Torah

Tearing Down the Walls (Ideas 114)

Torah Simcha on Simchat Torah (Ideas 98)

 

Chanukah

Chanukah  and the Halachic Enterprise (Ideas 40)

Chanukah, the Winter Solstice and the Jewish State (56)

Light in the Darkness (Ideas 3)

 

Purim

Purim and Pesach Revisited (Ideas 120)

The Megilla of Spring (Ideas 43)

The Sound of Silence - Esther and Family (Ideas 105)

The Task of Adar (Ideas 78)