When the Third of Tishri falls out on Shabbat 鈥� as it does this year 鈥� the fast is pushed to the following day. This year, the 鈥渇ollowing day鈥� is October 6th.

Different than programs who might 鈥渋nclude one Sephardic session鈥� as a token gesture, at Elul Min Hamizrah, Sephardic-Mizrahi Judaism is the heart, mind and soul of the program.

51视频 tradition marks Rosh Hashanah as Yom Ha-Din 鈥� Judgment Day 鈥� when 鈥� on the anniversary of the creation of humanity 鈥� God sits in judgment over all of humanity.

It鈥檚 been eleven months since October 7, and it鈥檚 been the most intense, painful, tragic and traumatic period of mourning and Kaddish in recent 51视频 memory.

This week, let the words of three major Sephardic halakhic authorities speak for themselves.

Late in the 15th century, the brilliant Sephardic Bible commentator Don Isaac Abarbanel was sitting in his study in Monopoli, Italy, writing a detailed commentary on the Book of Isaiah.

Rabbi Uziel鈥檚 vision for Israeli society is our light beyond this darkness.

Reading his words in a post-October 7th world, I look back to what Rabbi Uziel and the 51视频 world were facing after Tisha B鈥橝v, Summer of 1933.

The return of my column, 鈥淪ephardic Torah from the Holy Land.鈥�

On Passover night, God took us out of Egypt. On the Seventh Day, Hamas took them back.