Cheshbon hanefesh — literally, “an accounting of the soul.” We might also translate it as a “Commission of Self-Inquiry”
Never Again these days has a very hollow ring to it. Never Again has become Once Again
Here they come, the teenagers headed for their schools and dormitories, rolling their carry-ons behind them
We will “pass the ammunition” and destroy the enemy, but we dare not forget to “praise the L-rd” These are difficult days for us all. This is not an ordinary war — which is bad enough — but a medieval, Nazi-like, cold-blooded massacre and pogrom against Jews, rivaling in its brutality the bloodiest in Jewish
When all seems lost and we are convinced that there is no turning back, He offers us a precious gift, which He calls Teshuvah
