God wants us to keep trying to be good people and good Jews. He wants us to be close to Him in whatever ways we can be.
People who can forgive those who have wronged them demonstrate a noble and humble soul. In doing so, they receive the appropriate treatment from God.
Even as it creates this challenge, the liturgy provides a solution by offering a range of different modes of relating to God.
While people should in fact do teshuva for all their sins, they should not be paralyzed by the enormity of the work that needs to be done.
Just as we hope that God will forgive us and grant us atonement during the High Holy Days, we must personally reject the unforgiving insidious practice of cancel culture.
Which events over the past year have enhanced the presence of God in our world, and which events have diminished His presence?
A short story about Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and a name for God, Hamakom.
One of the most compelling aspects of the Torah is that its individuals, even our great role models, are presented not as perfect saints but as complex, at times even contradictory, people.
As we pick our way through some of the most severe internal troubles in Israel's history, the inherent covenant binding the Jewish people and Israel is in peril.
The PM warned Israelis trying to go to Uman for Rosh Hashanah that it is dangerous and God hasn't always protected the Jews in Ukraine.