Building the Sukkah and Yerushalayim
On Sukkot there is a mitzvah to dwell in the Sukkah – “in sukkot you shall dwell for seven days.” …
Teshuva As A Return to Jerusalem
This week’s haftorah very fittingly is focused on teshuva. Hoshea movingly tells the people to take stock of their spiritual…
Coronating God in Jerusalem
This year the first day of Rosh HaShanah occurs on Shabbat and therefore we refrain from blowing the shofar. While…
Teshuva in Jerusalem
On this final Shabbat of the year, we fittingly read about the mitzvah of teshuva (repentance). After describing the Jewish…
Jerusalem of Fear and Joy
We generally think of simcha (joy) and yirah (fear) as mutually exclusive feelings. Experiencing fear or even the solemnity of…
Quarantining In Jerusalem
In several instances, the Torah commands us to remember a specific event for posterity. Interestingly, two of the events that…
The Temimut of Yerushalayim
During their time in the desert, the Jewish people did not have to agonize about their future. While they might…
The Blessing of Jerusalem
Our parsha opens with Moshe presenting the Jewish people with a dramatic choice: Behold, I set before you today a…
Yerushalayim and the Sequence of Birkat HaMazon
Our parsha stirringly describes the beauty and resources of the Land of Israel, emphasizing that the Jewish people must properly…
Message from Jerusalem – Tisha Bav thoughts from Daniel Luria
Ateret Cohanim is at the forefront of this revival of Jewish life in and around the Old City with Jewish life returned to the Old City, the City of David, the Shiloach, the Mount of Olives and to Kidmat Zion.
So Jews once rejected G-d and His Torah – please don’t reject Him any longer and if we perform Miztvot – let’s do it with true intention(Kavana)
So Jews were once ashamed of being proud Jews and they tried to “fit-in” and act like the non Jews, in order to be liked by the non jew. It didn’t help, so please – lets be proud of who we are, and let’s be different . We will be respected.