The Torah inspires us to develop our character, Tikkun Middot, becoming better people by correcting our faults and improving our character. Elul Self-Reflection # 20 Lovingkindness / Chesed ...

Chesed: mercy, compassion, kindness, grace, steadfastness, faithfulness. The kabbalists associate Chesed with the soul’s desire to embrace all of Creation and bestow upon it goodness. An ...

Words matter to Jews. Language matters. Hebrew, filled with beauty and poetic power, is a language in which words carry not just superficial meaning, not just historical context, but also deep ...

In rabbinic and modern Hebrew, chesed means kindness or benevolence. In the Siddur, for example, chesed and rachamim (mercy) are often used together. But biblical chesed denotes a different idea.

ANSHE CHESED (Fairmount Temple), established as a German Orthodox congregation in 1841 and chartered on 28 Feb. 1842, is the oldest existing Jewish congregation in Cleveland. Its Hebrew name means ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 21.--The cornerstone of the new temple of the Hebrew congregation Aushe Chesed was laid here to-day with impressive ceremonies, made the more memorable because, ...

The Hebrew congregation Anshi Chesed, (Sons of Righteousness,) who have for many years worshipped in the old Norfolk Street Synagogue, yesterday afternoon consecrated their handsome new temple, ...

Rabbi Mordechai Yachnes of the Torah Academy of Boca Raton sang “Chesed means to help someone and it’s a great mitzvah and also lots of fun,” as more than 600 1st through 5th grade students ...

“When West talks about love, he often invokes the Hebrew word chesed, which in the Jewish tradition means ­ ‘loving-kindness,’” according to a 2012 profile in New York magazine.

Activist and Harvard professor Cornel West used the “chesed,” Hebrew for kindness, during a Bernie Sanders campaign event in New Hampshire. “We got a deep Jewish brother named Bernie Sanders ...