by Rabbi Ilan Goldman | Oct 3, 2021
Rav Ilan Goldman Former Rav Shaliach of Bnei Akiva UK Incoming Educational Director of Torah MiTzion Click Here for the PDF version There is a story in the Midrash[1] regarding a pasuk from our Parasha: Rabbi Yannai saw a man whom he thought to be a Talmid...
by Rabbi Moshe Bloom | Nov 5, 2020
Rabbi Moshe Bloom Former Rosh Kollel (Warsaw, 2013-2017) Currently Head of the English department at Machon HaTorah Ve’Haaretz, the Institute for Torah and the Land of Israel Click HERE for the PDF version Edited from an article of Rabbi Yehuda Zoldan, Sukkat...
by Rabbi Moshe Aberman | Nov 5, 2020
Rabbi Moshe Aberman Former Rosh Kollel (Chicago, 1997-1999) Currently a Torah advisor to the Shlichim Click HERE for the PDF version The Torah commands us “בַּסֻּכֹּ֥ת תֵּשְׁב֖וּ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים כָּל־הָֽאֶזְרָח֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יֵשְׁב֖וּ בַּסֻּכֹּֽת”...
by Rabbi Yair Spitz | Oct 24, 2019
I’ve grown accustomed to hearing, year after year, that “Sukkot is the hardest holiday to explain to outsiders”, or the o-so-popular “if a non Jew saw us shaking our Lulavim he’d think we were all pagans”. A popular answer is the standard default of “yes, it...
by Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | Oct 17, 2017
Rav Gideon Weitzman Former Rosh Kollel in Kansas City Be Happy The custom is to read Kohelet on Shabbat Chol Hamoed Succot (see Masechet Sofrim 14:1) which presents a stark and honest introspective view of life and joy. The choice of this Megillah as the one...
by Rabbi Ilan Goldman | Oct 13, 2016
Rabbi Ilan Goldman Former Rav-Shaliach, Bnei Akiva England Currently Executive Director of Project Aseret Sukkot: The Festival of the Land Sukkot is the last of the three Regalim. We all know that Pesach is a reminder of Yetziat Mitzrayim, and that Shavuot is a...
by Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | Oct 21, 2015
Rav Gideon Weitzman Former Rosh Kollel in Kansas City Currently Head of the English Speaking Section of the Puah Institute Source Sheets Running to the Succah – audio class
by Dani Eisenstock | Oct 7, 2015
Dani Eisenstock Former Shaliach, Kansas City (2002-03) Once every seven years we have a very special Mitzvah- Hakhel. The Torah commands that at the end of the Shmita Year, on Succot when you all gather together in Yerushalayim, men, women and children should...
by Rabbi Herzl Hefter | Sep 17, 2015
Rav Herzl Hefter Former Rosh Kollel in Cleveland (1995-1997) Source Sheets Food in Eden and the Desert – audio class
by Rabbi Shaul Feldman | Dec 29, 2014
What does the Torah intend for the experience of sitting in a Sukka to mean to us? Vayikra 23 tells us: Sit in a Sukka– so that all generations will know that I Hashem put Bnei Yisrael in sukkot when I brought them out of Egypt. But this only raises the...
