Chaim Yochanan Cohen

One recurring Yom Kippur theme is the question of how we can ask forgiveness time and time again for our repeated sins and still expect G-D to grant our requests.

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt and without cost: the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. [Numbers 11:5] Not by bread alone does the man live, but by every word that leaves the mouth of G-D the man lives. [Deuteronomy 8:3] In my hast...

Rabbi Yossi says, “Ben David (i.e. Mashiach) will not arrive until all of the neshamot (souls) have been ‘finished’ from the guf (body).” (Talmud Nidah 13:b) The anvil upon which You hammer out souls from Your royal treasury let loose a spark which lit up...