by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Rabbi's Marmon's Blog
As the High Holy Days come into view over the horizon, this year my mind is on the sometimes forgotten fall holiday that sneaks in behind: Sukkot (or Succoth, if you hanker for old-timey transliterations that won’t upset your computer’s spell checker). Let’s take a...
by admin | Feb 21, 2025 | Rabbi's Marmon's Blog
The springtime holidays, Purim and Passover, are linked by four named shabbatot (Sh‘kalim, Zachor, Parah, and haChodesh), each marked with a unique maftir Torah reading and related haftarah which overrules the usual haftarah matched to the weekly parashah. Although...
by admin | Dec 30, 2024 | Rabbi's Marmon's Blog
The late winter months on the Jewish calendar are marked by two special occasions. First is ‘Asarah b’Tevet, the tenth of Tevet (January 10th this year), one of four annual fasts connected with the destruction of the First Temple, specifically marking the date when...
by admin | Dec 2, 2024 | Rabbi's Marmon's Blog
Perspective shapes everything. Take Chanukah: Roughly 165 years before the Common Era (BCE), the Greek King Antiochus IV, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, that fraction of Alexander’s empire headquartered in Syria and ruling over the Land of Israel, decided to end...
by admin | Sep 1, 2024 | Rabbi's Marmon's Blog
As we approach the Fall Holidays this year, we also approach the anniversary of the Simchat Torah Massacre perpetrated by Hamas on the Gaza Envelope communities of Southern Israel and at the Nova music festival, and the yahrzeit of roughly 1200 victims killed in the...
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