Meaning of the Jewish holidays

Collection, compiled on the basis of articles and speeches R.Adina Evan-Yisrael (Steinsaltz), is dedicated to holidays and memorable dates of the Jewish calendar. These special days, leaving the roots in the past, marked by important events. Some of them are set in the Pentateuch, some added in later periods. Jewish holidays are the time-like milestones that measure out the cycles of the year. Wise and the exact words of the author is telling about the nature of these days and their significance in our lives.

Content

Editors' preface
 Introduction

New year
New Year
The Universe and conclusions
"The head of the year"
Hear the voice of the shofar
To the source of the kingdom
Memorial Day
Justification for the creation?
You are witnesses of me and I am Gd

Day of Atonement
"Come back, wayward children" ten days of repentance
There is no forgiveness in a pagan world
For the sin we have committed
Serving in the Holy of Holies
Repentance and the Day of Atonement
Essence of the Day of Atonement

Feast of Tabernacles - Sukkot
Under the cover of the festive day of our
Return to the tents of the desert
Seven shepherds, and eight principal
Joy vodocherpiya
The nineteenth of Kislev

Hanukkah
Stiff-necked people

fifteenth Shevat
Man - tree of the field

Purim
Your wonders which You
committed with us every day
Scroll exile
Jews established and assumed
Erase Amalek
 
Passover
"The people living alone»
The eating of matzah
Grace in thy youth;

days counting the Omer
Counting the days
Second Passover - day correction

Jerusalem Day
Love for Jerusalem

Shavuot
The genesis of Jewish exceptionalism
Word commanded
for a thousand generations
Freedom on the tablets
The value of the Torah
Receiving the Torah
Thor's life

third Tamuz
Gilula day - the third Tamuz
The legacy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - do not shy away!
 
NINTH ABA
The memory of Jerusalem
The memory of the catastrophe of the Ninth of Av .............
How much can you suffer?
Crying Irmeyagu
The destruction of the temple:
removal of Divinity

Elul and Teshuva
Wrap-up and correction
Eighteenth Elul
Teshuva - returning to the source
Tshuva precedes the world
Ossification of the heart,
preventing teshuvah
Returning to Gd