You might ask: Is there really some special national holiness? Is God not the same for all, is there not the same God for Russians, the French, Jews, and Greeks?
Who were these two people that went into the Temple? Who was this Publican? For the fortieth time, or perhaps for the fiftieth, we need to remember who he was.
The goal of the striving of fasting, the striving of all our struggles – of repentance, prayer, and our entreaties – is to aspire toward the unveiling in us of the image of God inscribed in our ...
