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The act of service isn’t just a noun that we receive; it is also a verb—an action that we are called to do.

What Yom Kippur is to the spirit, Sukkot is to the body.

During this period, our tradition teaches, we must reach out to “clean up” our relationships and seek reconciliation.

When we hear the shofar this year, may we each hear the cries of those whose voices we’ve willfully or unknowingly ignored.

The Talmud—the 1,500-year-old proverbial scrapbook of Jewish legend, law and rabbinic debate—has something profound to teach us today.

Some dismiss or even erase uncomfortable texts, but it is not the goal of Jewish education to help us feel comfortable.