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    Chassidish Stories and Great Rabbis

    President Herzog visits Rabbi Wein

    A special Chag get-together of Rabbi Berel Wein and President Mr. Isaac Herzog speaking about his grandfather Rav Herzog ZT"L and giving a blessing in honor of Pesach.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Nissan 17 5782
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    The Spirit of the Holiday

    Succot's Relief

    The culmination of the great month of Tishrei occurs with the commemoration of the holiday of Succot. It provides a joyful relief and release from the intensity of the first two major holidays of the month, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tishrei 9 5782
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    The High Holidays

    Holiday Memories

    I am taking the liberty of sharing some of my holiday memories with you. Nostalgia can be very alluring, but there is also always a modicum of hard-headed realism that memories of the past always evoke.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tishrei 3 5782
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    The Month of Elul

    Elul

    There was a time, not so far distant in the past, that it was said in Eastern Europe, that even the fish in the rivers trembled when they heard the announcement that the month of Elul had arrived. That certainly is not the case today.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Elul 8 5781
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    Mourning Over the Churban

    Comfort and Consolation

    The Jewish people has searched for some sort of physical and psychological response to the destruction of the Temple. The pain of centuries of humiliation, discrimination and violence cannot easily be replaced or erased even by the miraculous resurrection of the Jewish people and the state of Israel in our time.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Av 12 5781
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    Shavuot

    An Open-ended Celebration

    Of all the holidays of the Jewish calendar year, Shavuot is the shortest – celebrated only for one day. Many times, this holiday somehow leaves people feeling unfulfilled by what they had hoped to be a spiritual and joyful experience.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Sivan 5 5781
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    Lag Ba'omer

    Lag Ba'Omer

    All traditions do agree though, that on the 33rd day of the count of the Omer these disciples of Rabbi Akiva did stop dying. It is interesting that we have a semi-holiday, nbecause somehow the evil decree allowed by heaven to end so many lives, such as it was, would not continue.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Iyar 15 5781
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    The Meaning Sefirat Ha'omer

    Counting the Omer

    We are now in the middle of the counting of the Omer, I have always been somewhat perplexed by the general explanation, that this count is meant to represent the longing of the Jewish people and their preparation for the acceptance of the Torah on Mount Sinai after their freedom from the bondage of Egypt.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Iyar 7 5781
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    The Meaning Sefirat Ha'omer

    Counting

    Each of the 49 intervening days as well as the seven weeks that pass between the holidays is to be counted. It is clear, though, that the Torah is insistent on this count during the interim between these two major holidays of the Jewish calendar.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Nissan 9 5781
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    Passover - Pesach

    The Important Lesson of Pesach

    Our entire fulfillment of the commandment of eating matzoh on Pesach is to reinforce our innate sense of belief and faith in the future and in our ability to realize our individual and national potential. Belief eventually leads to action and action leads to redemption.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Nissan 9 5781
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    The Month of Nissan

    Spring

    I think that we can all agree that it is been a rather difficult winter that we have experienced over the past few months. Here, in Israel, it was a winter of political disarray, Corona issues and enforced lockdowns, and the usual, somewhat depressing, factors of winter – short days and long and often lonely nights. So, the advent of spring is certainly a harbinger of better times and brighter days to come.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Nissan 1 5781
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    The Tenth of Tevet

    The Tenth of Tevet

    One day commemorates a variety of Jewish tragedies.

    One day commemorates a variety of Jewish tragedies.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tevet 10 5781
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    The Meaning of Hanukkah

    Chanuka

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Kislev 16 5781
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    The Essence of Sukkot

    Succot

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tishrei 12 5781
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    V'zot Habracha

    V'zot Habracha

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tishrei 9 5781
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    The Essence of Yom Kippur

    Yom Kippur

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tishrei 3 5781
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    The Essence of Rosh Hashana

    Rosh Hashana

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Elul 10 5780
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    Articles about Shavuot

    The meaning of Shavuot

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Iyar 29 5775
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    Additional Lessons

    PESACH

    Rabbi Berel Wein | 5775
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    Shabbat Hagadol

    Shabbat Hagadol

    Rabbi Berel Wein | 5775
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