Chag Sukkot The haftarah selection for the first day of Sukkot is taken from the final chapter of sefer Zechariah and describes the Navi’s final
בַּסֻּכֹּת תֵּשְׁבוּ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים כָּל־הָאֶזְרָח בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשְׁבוּ בַּסֻּכֹּת׃ “Seven days you should dwell in sukkos, all the citizens of Yisrael will dwell in sukkos.” On
What is the fantastic “Feast of the Leviathan” and what connects it to Sukkot? The Gemara in Bava Batra 75a describes a feast in the
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
Each year just before Sukkot, I am reminded of some of the first words of Torah I ever heard. I was 15 and was attending
It’s that time of year again, when we build our sukkahs and take down the boxes of decorations filled with kindergarten masterpieces, pictures of Jerusalem,
Last year’s disastrous Hamas attack on October 7 coincided with the morning of Simchat Torah in Israel. Many religious Israelis cannot imagine celebrating as usual
A Unique Set of Pesukim The events described in the Torah were written by Moshe Rabbeinu, exactly as transmitted from Hashem after those events occurred.
Although the Torah tells us that no one knows where Moshe was buried (Devarim 34:6), this is preceded by the Torah telling us that he
Do you know the secret of the Chafetz Chaim? When I say “the Chafetz Chaim,” you think of a person, the saintly Rabbi Yisrael Meir
Parshat Vezot Haberacha relates that when Moshe died, “Bnei Yisrael wept for him,” which Rashi explains refers to just the males weeping for Moshe. On
The tragic news has just arrived that the great Avraham has died. The entire world is grieving the loss of the spiritual leader of the
