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Banim La’shem! – Always And Everywhere!

Although Aleinu was composed by Yehoshua bin Nun, and the Anshei K’neses HaG’dolah instituted its inclusion in the Malchiyus section of tefilas Musaf on Rosh HaShanah, it was Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai who instituted saying it daily after each tefilah.  He did this to strengthen the emunah and spirits of klal Yisrael, who were living through the painful times of the destruction of the second Beis HaMikdash.

HaRav Aharon Kotler zt”l highlighted in a very strong way the extraordinary opportunity and gift of the month of Elul, which Hashem has granted to us.  He wrote:

We recite Aleinu daily, many of us three times a day; perhaps because we have grown so accustomed to saying it, many of us unfortunately do not appreciate the significance and importance of this tefilah. In fact, we are often mentally on our way to the next part of our day as we fly through this awesome tefilah.

nora s’hilos

is too awesome for praise 

Praying for a Better Future

For the next few weeks, in preparation for the Yamim Nora’im, we will be reviewing some of the first segments from the start of the Shemoneh Esrei series, as well as from the Aleinu series.

borei r’fuos

creates cures

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The field of Medicine is a rapidly changing landscape. Many lifesaving procedures and surgeries that are available today did not exist years ago. The same patient who can walk out of the hospital today with a relatively short recuperation period could very possibly have died years ago.