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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- Aug 29, 2020
- 7 min
Thoughts on the Blessings for Repentance and Forgiveness
We have entered into the month of Elul this week, the month preceding the High Holidays.
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- Aug 14, 2020
- 8 min
Thoughts on the Yotzer Or Blessing
Back in January, I wrote a piece about the El Adon hymn which is added into the Shabbat morning worship in the first blessing of the Sh'ma,
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- Aug 7, 2020
- 5 min
Thoughts on Psalm 34
Many of our sages throughout the centuries are known to us not so much by their proper names, but by the titles of their most important work
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- Jul 31, 2020
- 6 min
Thoughts on L'cha Dodi
It is not always clear how or when most prayers came into our Siddur. For the most part, our liturgy goes back a millennium and half or
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- Jul 23, 2020
- 7 min
Thoughts on Eli Tziyon
The month of Av begins this week on Wednesday. That means that in the coming week we will mark the major fast day of Tisha B'Av beginning on
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- Jul 9, 2020
- 7 min
Thoughts on the Daily Hallel
In a section of the Talmud in which various rabbis give suggestions for pious conduct, Rabbi Yose ben Halafta, a major second century sage,
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- Jul 2, 2020
- 5 min
Thoughts on V'hayah Im Shamoa
This biblical passage from Deuteronomy 11, that is recited in Jewish tradition every morning and evening, is one of the more troubling
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- Jun 17, 2020
- 5 min
A Thought on Psalm 19
Several years ago, I was attending a rabbinic retreat in New Hampshire at a summer camp located in a wooded area of the state. As part of t
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- May 27, 2020
- 5 min
A Thought on Yigdal
I was invited to speak this week, via Zoom, in the congregation in which I grew up in Bridgeport, CT, Congregation Rodeph Sholom.
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
- May 27, 2020
- 6 min
A Thought on Akdamut
I was flipping through the pages of a Shavuot machzor this morning (yes, machzorim are not just for High Holidays, but exist for other holid
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