by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroductionRebbetzin with Rav MechaelMazal tov it’s our wedding anniversary this Shabbat! I bless all of you with many happy years together with your true soul mate. This year, is one of the rare occasions when I get to celebrate our real...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroductionA Fig Tree Renewing itself in Bat AyinThe month of Shevat comes upon us at the peak of winter. All the leaves have fallen from the trees, the colorful flowers have withered, and everything seems dead and frozen. At this time we need...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroduction B’erot stall at the Birthright Fair this weekThe month of Tevet gives us the opportunity to deal with anger and transform its power to combat our yetzer hara (evil inclination). According to Sefer Yetzirah, the dominant sense of the...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroductionSo it finally came, the rain, and in its wake the blessed snow. Perhaps not exactly a blessing, but I hope at least a blessing in beautiful, lacy, white disguise. I can’t believe that just a little more than a week ago we were almost...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroductionThe month of Tevet is about taking the light of Kislev and bringing it into the very lowest most physical place of our being. The shape of the letter ע/ayin points toward this concept, for it is a letter that has a strong base below the...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Insights into the Jewish Months
Printable VersionIntroductionStudent artwork – Dreams collagePerhaps you may have experienced intense dreams recently? Sometimes you can get a feeling of what your dream is coming to teach you, while at other times you haven’t gotten a clue? I find myself...
