The month of Tishrei is best known for the High Holidays, the “Days of Awe” characterized by extensive introspection and prayer.
There is another holiday, a more outwardly joyful occasion which follows the more solemn Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. On multiple occasions in the Torah, this holiday
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 front of a mirror and asked
Is it permissible to hang in one’s Sukkah photographs of great Rabbis? The Ben Ish Chai, in Parasha Ma’asei, cites a Kabbalistic tradition forbidding
What should a person look for when purchasing an etrog? First, one should be careful to purchase etrogim from an orchard which maintains a tradition
The Shulchan Aruch ruled that there is no distinction between the first night of Sukkot and the other days of the holiday with respect to rainfall
When a person eats bread in the Sukkah, he recites two Brachot: 1) Bracha of “Hamotzi”- the one always recited before eating bread; 2) “Le’shev
Everyone knows the situation we are living in. Such difficult times. We went through a lot this past year. It was not a simple year. Many people that
