Tammuz is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. The 17th of Tammuz is a fast day in remembrance of Jerusalem’s walls being breached and the beginning of the Three Weeks, a period of mourning commemorating events surrounding the destruction of the Temples […]
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Sivan (Siwan) is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. According to tradition on the 1st of Sivan, 150 days after the rains stopped in the Great Flood, the raging waters which covered the entire earth calmed down the rate of one cubit every four days (Genesis 8:3; Rashi) . On the 6th of Sivan we celebrate Shavuot and the Yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic movement in Judaism. On the 17th of Sivan, Noah’s ark came to a rest.
Reb Shlomo taught us the some of us are so worried that our children should be religious. He taught us to first make Yidden out of them. The deepest holiness of us Jews is not only in the way we keep Shabbos and eat matza. The deepest holiness is how we pray for our children.
Here are some of Reb Shlomo’s teachings for the month of Siwan.
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Reb Shlomo Carlebach shared with us many insights about Iyyar, the eighth month of the civil year and the second month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. He had some innovative ideas about the meaning and the legacy of
4 Iyar - Yom Hazikaron (Israel Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance / Memorial Day)
5 Iyar - Yom Ha’atzma’ut (Israeli Independence Day)
14 Iyar - Pesach Sheini (Second Passover)
18 Iyar - Lag Ba’omer
28 Iyar - Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day: commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem).
Click here to read Torahs, watch videos and listen to songs and teachings of Reb Shlomo about the month of Iyyar. New content is added on a daily basis so please check back frequently.
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