At JewBelong, we focus on what we call The Big Four Holidays (Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah) plus Shabbat. Each holiday section includes a pretty fantastic booklet that you can print out
We tend to need religion more when facing a lifecycle moment because that is when we like to, no scratch that, that is when we need to feel connected to something bigger than us, and to know that we belong to a community….
At JewBelong, we focus on what we call The Big Four Holidays (Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah) plus Shabbat. Each holiday section includes a pretty fantastic booklet that you can print out
We tend to need religion more when facing a lifecycle moment because that is when we like to, no scratch that, that is when we need to feel connected to something bigger than us, and to know that we belong to a community….
I never knew how strong I was until I had to forgive someone who wasn’t sorry, and accept an apology I never received. -Author Unknown
Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized, or because you acknowledged the pain that you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace. -Najwa Zebian
We should not be the same person the day after Yom Kippur that we were the day before Yom Kippur. We should be moving ahead, raising our lives to a higher level. -Rabbi Marc D. Angel
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mahatma Gandhi
Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren’t supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right. -Naomi Wolf
Yom Kippur is God’s way of allowing us to recalculate the course of our lives. -Shimon Apisdorf