The days are now shorter, and the nights seem incessantly long. It is the great reminder we are in a new month, Kislev, whose name means ‘to trust and to hope.’ When the darkness is so omnipresent, ...

The 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev is celebrated as the “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism.” It was on this date, in the year 1798, that the founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of ...

Everyone knows Kislev is the month of miracles, with Chanukah as our emblematic holiday of Jewish victory over all physical and spiritual opposition. Less well known is the holiday of Yud Tes Kislev, ...

The 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev is celebrated as the “Rosh Hashanah of Chabad Chassidism.” It was on this date, in the year 1798, that the founder of ChabadChassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman ...

As we leave the month of Cheshvan, associated with the beginnings of rain and early nightfall, we enter the month of Kislev associated with light and joy due to the Rabbinic holiday of Hannukahh.

As I bathe in the soothing warmth of my window’s sun-drenched glass pane on this chilly November day, I marvel at the striking exhibition of contrasts: a bright sun in a gloriously blue sky casting ...

Kislev, the month when we begin to light the candles of Chanukah, is the month that contains the year’s longest nights and shortest days. In Kislev we begin in darkness, like all of creation. With ...