Simchat Torah Chazal’s selection of the first chapter in sefer Yehoshua as the haftara for Simchat Torah is certainly understandable as it flows quite naturally
When war started in 1939, the European yeshivos were in a quandary. Should they move? Disband? The last Yom Tov of the Mir Yeshiva in
There are few mitzvot as colorful or as diverse as the lovely bouquet of the lulav. All four natural minim in the lulav arrangement are
A father set out one day to teach his young daughter a powerful lesson. When she woke up in the morning, he took her in
A colleague, Rabbi Jonathan Gross, served as a rabbi in Omaha, Nebraska for close to a decade. Nebraskans take their football and their home team,
This summer was supposed to have been a momentous one for Yellowstone National Park. Celebrating its 150th anniversary—the first national park in the world to
Rebbe Aharon Perlow, zt”l — the third rebbe of the Karliner dynasty — was known by the name of his sefer, “Beis Aharon.” A beloved
Discovering and enjoying true happiness this Sukkot and beyond. With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur behind us, we are about to enter the chag of
Zman Simchateinu Though there is a mitzvah of simcha on all Yamim Tovim, only Sukkot is described as “zman simchateinu, the time of our joy.”’1
Sukkot carries a unique emphasis of being happy and joyous: “You should rejoice before Hashem for seven days” (Vayikra, 23:40). It’s zman simchateinu. How can
The Mishna in Sukkah 4:5 describes the Second Temple practice of taking the arava branches and circling the mizbeach once every day of Sukkot, and
Some things in life are similar. Some different. And the halachos of sukkah and of matzah have some of both. The Gemara in Pesachim (6a)
