Archive: September 2020

The Minhag of Bowing Down to the Ground on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Posted on September 17, 2020

September 17, 2020 – Rav Hershel Schachter Click here for the PDF This Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there will be many minyanim convening outside of the Beis Haknesses due to numerous government regulations. Those davening outside of a Beis Haknesses, would not be obligated to bow to the ground when reciting the Seder Ha’avodah Continue Reading »

The Leadership of a True Giant

Posted on April 30, 2020

April 29, 2020 – with thanks to Rav Pini Dunner The following is a translation by Rav Pini Dunner of a fundraising letter written, composed, and sent on Erev Yom Kippur 1831, by the great rabbinic leader Rabbi Akiva Eiger, amid the devastating cholera pandemic that was then wreaking its deathly havoc in Prussia. Click Continue Reading »