Teaching 1 · Shabbos morning class
What Can Shabbos Give Yom Kippur?
The early-morning Shabbos Shuva class, repeated before the Moriah Room minyan.
The Shabbos Shuva and Yom Kippur experience at Westmount · 5787
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Bring the Torah home.
These are the drashos and classes Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz delivered throughout Shabbos Shuva and Yom Kippur at Westmount. All ten teachings remain available to read or print.
Shabbos Shuva · Four teachings
Begin with
Shabbos.
All four Shabbos Shuva teachings are ready to read or print now, including the completed Shalosh Seudos drash.
Teaching 2 · Congregational drash
When Letting Go Is So Hard
A Shabbos Shuva drash about the struggle, courage and freedom of genuine change.
Teaching 3 · Shabbos Shuva drash
The First Shabbos Shuva: How Teshuvah Turns the Night Into Light
What the first Shabbos in the history of the world teaches us about failure, teshuvah and the remaining hours of this Shabbos Shuva.
Teaching 4 · Shalosh Seudos drash
The Joy on the Other Side of Sin
How Shabbos returns a Jew to the self that failure could never erase.
Yom Kippur · Six teachings
Continue into
Yom Kippur.
All six Yom Kippur teachings are ready: the Kol Nidrei drash, the ladies’ class during Maariv, the Yizkor drash, both afternoon classes and the concluding Neilah drash.
Practical guide for the day
How to Celebrate Yom Kippur 5787
Westmount's complete practical halachah guide covers Erev Yom Kippur, the five restrictions, eating and drinking b'shiurim, medication, children, Havdalah and Kiddush Levanah.
Teaching 5 · Kol Nidrei drash
The Three Letters
What must end before a new year of life can truly begin.
Teaching 6 · Ladies’ class during Maariv
Whose Rules Are Engraved in You?
The brown M&M story and the meaning of chok on Yom Kippur.
Teaching 7 · Yizkor drash
The Second Letter: Will Our Parents Recognize Us?
Yizkor, memory and the life we must lead if we hope to remain recognizable to those who formed us.
Teaching 8 · Afternoon class in the Lounge
Forgiven and Still Becoming
What Yom Kippur begins—and the unfinished work that continues after forgiveness.
Teaching 9 · Double class
Are You Ready for the Final Exam?
The holiness of an ordinary hour, the ten questions Hashem asks and a practical avodah for carrying Yom Kippur into daily life.
Teaching 10 · Neilah drash
The Third Letter: Take the Angel Home
The final letter, the treasure within an ordinary human life and the task of carrying Yom Kippur home.
Part of one continuing experience
Ten moments of Torah across the holiest days.
These ten teachings trace the Torah Rabbi Michalowicz shared from Shabbos Shuva morning through Neilah.
Return to any teaching and carry it into the year.
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