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Arba'at Haminim The essence of Sukkot

Tishrei 14 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Kirsch
Undercover Mitzva
Tishrei 14 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
MOVERS & SHAKERS
The essence of Sukkot
Tishrei 11 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Beginning Another Time Around
Sukkot is a complex time of the year. Within the holiday season, it is at the end of the season of the regalim, which starts with Pesach, in the first month of the Jewish calendar (Tishrei is the seventh, not the first month). In the agricultural year, which is so central to the calendar and the holidays, as described by the Torah (see Shemot 34:22), Sukkot is at (/near) the end of the harvest season, i.e., the end of the agricultural year. Therefore, at least if one has an optimistic perspective, this is a time of celebration, and we call it “z’man simchatenu.” This is a stark contrast to the mood of the recent Yamim Nora’im, which focus on fear and trepidation. Many explain Sukkot as a natural return to a more optimistic tone after hopefully succeeding in the spiritual “heavy lifting” of Yom Kippur.
Parashat Hashavua The essence of Sukkot
Tishrei 11 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Tying Up the Arba Minim on Yom Tov
Last year, I forgot to prepare the arba’a minim before Yom Tov and just put them in the koysheklach without tying anything. If this happens again, what can and should I do to prepare them on Yom Tov?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions Arba'at Haminim
Tishrei 13 5778 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Sukkot and Shabbat – What Type of Happiness?
The Vilna Gaon famously pointed out that there are two mitzvot that one fulfills with his whole body – living in Israel and living in a sukka. Of course this can be a cute physical observation, that there is no specific part of the body to which the mitzva applies. However, it is more likely that the intention is that these mitzvot apply to one’s whole persona.
Parashat Hashavua The essence of Sukkot
Rabbi Stewart Weiss
THE COMING OF THE CUBS AND THE MESSIAH
The essence of Sukkot
Tishrei 8 5777 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Sukkot - Commemorating What?
“They shall live in the sukkot for seven days; every citizen in Israel shall live in the sukkot. So that your generations will know that in the sukkot I had Bnei Yisrael live when I took them out of the Land of Egypt; I am Hashem, your G-d” (Vayikra 23:42-43). In the midrash (Sifra, Emor 12) we find three explanations for this mitzva. There is an opinion that the sukka is to be made from the four species which are waved on Sukkot, which implies that it is essentially part of one unit with the mitzva of the four species. It is difficult, though, to divorce the mitzva from the historical context to which the p’sukim refer explicitly.
Parashat Hashavua Sukkot
Tishrei 8 5777 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Sukkah Walls
Sukkot
Tishrei 12 5776 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Together in the Sukkah
The mitzvah of joy on Sukkot includes not only family members, but also the poor and lonely. A primer for the holiday.
Revivim
5775 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
The Commandment of Hakel
Sukkot
Tisheri 7 5776 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Obtaining Arba’ah Minim for the Sukkot after Shemitta
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions Arba'at Haminim
Tishrei 4 5776 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Sukkah Schach Review
Sukkot
Elul 24 5775 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
How will I Buy my Esrog this Year? (motzei shveet)
Arba'at Haminim
Tishrei 20 5775 | Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)
Mixing Celebration of Last Year and Dealing with Anxiety about Next Year
Judaism combines a linear and cyclic view of time to solve the problem of anxiety with stability and hope.
Sukkot
50 min
Tishrei 20 5774 | Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)
The Holiday of Sukkot- G-d Invested in Us but We Also Invested in Him
Despite Freud, Rav Kook claims that the urge to cling to G-d is the strongest inclination.
Sukkot Rav Kook books
45 min
5775 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Thoughts on Sukkot
Sukkot is a time for Jewish unity and, in the future, for all nations of the world to come to Zion.
Revivim Sukkot
5775 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
Heroes & Honored Guests
The essence of Sukkot
5775 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Unlinked and Indestructible
Parashat Hashavua The essence of Sukkot
5775 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
SUKKOTH
Sukkot
Rabbi Ido Yaakovi
How to choose the Arba MInim Laws of the Arava
The laws of the Arava - Willow, one of the four spices.
Sukkot