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Excerpted and adapted from ‘Talks on the Parasha’ by Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, Maggid Books (printed with permission). Rashi’s comment on the first verse in the

A Time of Joy? “V’samachta B’chagecha,” “Moadim L’simcha,” the buses in Israel proclaim the wish for a happy, joyous holiday to all from the front