Contributed by: Raysh Weiss, Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation)
A 21st century recasting of the iconic 13th century Spanish mystical Rosh haShanah piyyut. . . .
Contributed by: Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
The one who prays to Hashem Yitbarakh should hold the belief that, from the start, there was a cause brought about by the everlasting One, and that S/He is the source of all completions, and S/He created all the worlds at the time when it arose in Hir will. . . .
Contributed by: Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
It is the responsibility of leadership in every generation to remove stumbling blocks from paths provided for seekers of Hashem. The needs of the faith community have dramatically changed. In our generation, many of the paths to Heaven that used to work very well in the past, don’t work any more. Why is that? For several reasons: . . .
Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation)
During the time before there was a State of Israel, those ideals in our hearts which we tried to practice and which we wanted others to practice, seemed not achievable where we were because, we felt we had no influence over our world where we were. And so, the longing for our homeland was tied into the longing for our dreams and our vision. Now that the state of Israel is with us, our dreams and our visions still remain distant from our lives and therefore when we say the Tisha B’av prayers we need to remind ourselves of the distance between that which we would have in this world and that which we do have. . . .
Contributed by: Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
A supplemental Hoshanot liturgy for Sukkot confessing a selection of humanity’s crimes against creation. . . .