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September 11, 2026 / 29 Elul 5786
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A shofar (ram's horn) at the Western Wall in Jerusalem (MagioreStock, Shutterstock.com)
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Shalom -, Please enjoy today's Daily Inspiration from Israel.
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And in that day, a great ram’s horn shall be sounded; and the strayed who are in the land of Assyria and the expelled who are in the land of Egypt shall come and worship GOD on the holy mount, in Jerusalem.
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וְהָיָה בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יִתָּקַע בְּשׁוֹפָר גָּדוֹל וּבָאוּ הָאֹבְדִים בְּאֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר וְהַנִּדָּחִים בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם וְהִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לַיהֹוָה בְּהַר הַקֹּדֶשׁ בִּירוּשָׁלָ͏ִם
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v'-ha-YAH ba-YOM ha-HU yi-ta-KA b'-sho-FAR ga-DOL u-VA-u ha-o-v'-DEEM b'-E-retz a-SHUR v'-ha-ni-da-KHEEM b'-E-retz mitz-RA-yim v'-hish-ta-kha-VU la-do-NAI b'-HAR ha-KO-desh bee-ru-sha-LA-yim
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Two Sounds Over Manhattan
By Shira Schechter
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What I remember most about September 11th, 2001, is the sound. Not the images, which I saw on a television like everyone else, but the sirens. Ambulances, police cars, fire trucks, a wail that started that morning and did not stop for days. Every siren meant someone was running toward destruction, or another body had been found, or a family was waiting for news that would never come. It was the sound of human fragility, panic, and raw grief.
I was in a graduate program at Stern College, YU's women's division, on 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The first report came from a woman who had just walked in off the Long Island Railroad. A plane had hit one of the towers. She had seen it. At first none of us knew what it meant, but as the day went on and the news trickled in, we started to get a sense of the enormity of what had happened.
Eventually we made our way home to Washington Heights. The streets of Midtown were eerily quiet. The Empire State Building was cordoned off out of fear that there could be another attack. On the train, two women sat there in a daze. They had been downtown, at the World Trade Center site. They didn't say much. They didn't have to.
In the Jewish calendar that year, September 11th fell in the last week of Elul, the month of spiritual preparation leading into the High Holidays. Elul is meant to be a time of quiet introspection, a period when we assess our lives and prepare for the Day of Judgment. But that year, judgment felt like it had arrived early, descending in a cloud of ash over Lower Manhattan.
When Rosh Hashanah arrived a week later, the city was still reeling. The traditional liturgy of the holiday takes on a terrifying relevance in times of crisis. One of the central prayers of the High Holidays, Unetanneh Tokef ("Let us speak of the awesomeness of the day"), confronts human vulnerability directly: Who shall live and who shall die? Who by fire and who by water? Who by sword and who by beast? On any other year, those words can feel poetic or abstract. That year, standing in Manhattan, they felt like the evening news.
Yet the core ritual of Rosh Hashanah is not a prayer written on paper. It is a sound.
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25 years after 9/11, three men who lived it are sitting down to tell their stories.
A national security expert. A teenager who celebrated that day and later left Islam. A brother whose sister never came home from the towers.
This Monday, September 14 at 2pm Eastern, 9pm Israel. Register: https://cutt.ly/KylxMZIr
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The Only Jewish Girl on the Team: Remembering Nancy Morgenstern 25 Years Later
A quarter of a century has passed since September 11th 2001. Yet for anyone who has actually lost someone, the number on the calendar barely matters. Ten years, twenty-five years, fifty years. Grief does not observe milestones. The ache a mother feels for her daughter is the same whether it has been five years or a hundred.
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Huckabee Reverses Course: Samaria Attack "A Daily Occurrence" for Israelis That "Won’t Get International Attention"
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee struck a very different tone on Monday than the one he used a week earlier. After a terrorist stabbed an Israeli in Samaria, Huckabee wrote on X that the attack "won’t get the international attention that attacks on Palestinians receive, but it’s a daily occurrence that Israelis have to live with," adding a prayer for the "Peace of Jerusalem." IDF soldiers killed the terrorist responsible.
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Explained! Why Iran Would Never Dare Attack Israel
Iran is firing across the region, but Rabbi Pesach Wolicki says there’s one country it still won’t dare hit: Israel. He explains why Tehran knows a direct attack could trigger the one response it fears most.
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As the High Holidays approach, do you long to feel truly renewed? Before the King guides you through Elul, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot with wisdom and heart. These reflections help you release, return, and stand before God with clarity, forgiveness, and peace.
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Blessings from the land of Israel,
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