Shavuot, signals monumental transition from slavery to freedom to receiving God's commandments at Mt. Sinai. Life is about change, sometimes good, sometimes bad and sometimes change just is.
Passover is a popular, experiential Jewish holiday with universal appeal which summons us to imagine slavery and liberation, to place ourselves into the story itself.
Rabbi Nesselson explains why the Israeli development of the Iron Dome missile defense system, utilized in the recent Israel-Gaza conflict, is a modern Chanukah story.
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