PARSHAT VAYEILECH
September 26-27, 2025 / 5 Tishrei 5786 THIS SHABBAT
Shabbat Shuva SPECIAL DAY
Yom Kippur begins Wednesday night, October 1, and ends Thursday night, October 2. | | |  FEATURED | | |  | | The Most Famous Tefillah You Might Not Understand | | Halacha Initiatives | Each year, we begin Yom Kippur with the powerful, haunting prayer of Kol Nidrei. But how much of it do we truly comprehend? Rabbi Ezra Sarna, director of Torah and Halacha Initiatives, offers insights and provides answers to the Kol Nidrei questions you've always wanted to ask. | | | |  AROUND THE OU | |  | | OU Kosher | | OU Pas Yisroel List 5786 | The Tur (Orach Chaim, Siman 603), based upon the Talmud Yerushalmi, cites the custom for Jews to be stringent during the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah to eat Pas Yisroel bread exclusively. Even those Jews who generally do not follow this stringency are encouraged to accept this practice during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We therefore present the list of all OU Kosher certified Pas Yisroel products. | | View Pas Yisroel List | | |  | | OU-JLIC | | What Does It Really Mean to Comfort Someone? | The Torat JLIC podcast returns for Season 2 with a deep dive into Jewish consolation. Through a beautiful midrash about a king and queen, hosts Rabbi Dr. Alex Ozar and Rabbi Don Cantor explore how "Nachamu" calls us to actively comfort others rather than wait to be comforted ourselves. | | Listen on Podbean | | |  | | Jewish Action | | The High Holidays of My Youth | Adina Sapir recalls the Yomim Noraim of her childhood, praying beside her Auschwitz-survivor Bubby and her tearful friends whose pain she couldn't grasp at age twelve. Forty years later, her thoughts still return to that Boro Park shtiebel. | | Read More | | |  UPCOMING EVENTS | |  TORAH | |  | | Rabbi Moshe Hauer | | Unfinished Business? | "Mi yichyeh u'mi yamut, mi b'kitzo u'mi lo b'kitzo. Who will live and who will die? Who will die at the predestined time and who before that time?" These words of the uNetaneh Tokef prayer – recited both this past week on Rosh Hashanah and bez"H next week on Yom Kippur – remind us of our vulnerability and of the possibility that one may leave this world with unfinished business. | | Read More | | |  | | Rabbi Menachem Genack | | The Torah as a Song | The Gemara explains a cryptic dialogue between Yehoshua and an angel as alluding to our parsha. Based on the Ponovezher Rav's explanation for why the Torah is described as a song, we can explain the meaning of this encounter. | | Read in Hebrew | | |  | | Rebbetzin Dr. Adina Shmidman | | Two Paths, One Return | The haftorah of Shabbos Shuva calls us into the heart of repentance. Hoshea opens with the stirring words, "Return, O Israel, to Hashem your G-d." At first glance, this echoes Yeshayahu's cry from Tzom Gedaliah – "Seek Hashem when He is found, call Him when He is near." | | Read More | | |  | | Dr. Erica Brown | | Honesty | Confession is another word for naming. Without a name, a problem will never be properly addressed. Without confession, there is no redemption. | | Read More | | |  | | Rabbi Jack Abramowitz | | Tehillim for Teshuvah | What Tehillim should one recite when asking for assistance in teshuvah? For the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, OU Torah presents the latest in its series of colorful, printable sheets collecting the Tehillim recited on many common occasions. | | Read More | | |  | | Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l | | The Heart, the Home, the Text | By now Moses had given 612 commands to the Israelites. But there was one further instruction he still had to give, the last of his life, the final mitzvah in the Torah. | | Read More | | |  | | Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb | | One Verse, Many Lessons | We met in a Jerusalem café, and I must admit that, although they recognized me, I neither recognized nor even recalled any of them. That is, until they began to reminisce about their common experience as students of mine. | | Read More | | |  THIS WEEK ON SOCIAL | | | |  | | OU Kosher | | | | | |
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