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.”
We start the days of teshuva declaring Hashem “Our Father Our King.” We clop our chest and confess on Yom Kippur. We live in huts
What are you going to take out of Sukkot? For one week, we will live in a home that has somewhere between two and a
Why is there a special mitzvah of joy, simcha, on Sukkot—and how can we fully achieve it? The source to be extremely happy on Sukkot
In parshat Vzot Habracha, Moshe passes away, and there seems to be a theme in his legacy that can be gleaned from this parsha. The
Hashem Is Seeming Insensitive to Moshe Rabbeinu! Congregation Shaarei Orah’s Menachem Bestoff and Joel Mizrahi raise a poignant question. They note that Hashem seems exceedingly
וַיַּרְא רֵאשִׁית לוֹ כִּי שָׁם חֶלְקַת מְחֹקֵק סָפוּן וַיֵּתֵא רָאשֵׁי עָם צִדְקַת ה’ עָשָׂה וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו עִם יִשְׂרָאֵל (דברים לג:כא) (Concerning Shevet Gad) “ … He
(Courtesy of SAR HS) As a prelude to Yom Kippur, SAR High School Founding Principal Rabbi Tully Harcsztark took the stage for his annual schoolwide
Kiddushin 49a discusses conditional betrothal. If I betroth on condition that I’m a Kohen, but I am really a Levi, there’s no betrothal. The same
“Here comes Yosef, that self-righteous annoying little tittle-tattler,” his brothers say as they notice him off in the distance bringing them provisions. “We’re nowhere near
Often life’s greatest treasures await those willing to mine the depths far beneath the surface. This truth in the physical world is far more apparent
And so Moses dies, alone on a mountain with God as he had been all those years ago when, as a shepherd in Midian, he
