“We all know that Succos should really be on Pesach because that is when we came out of Mitzrayim. The Vilna Gaon says however that the 15th day of Tishrei is really the appropriate time. Succos commemorates the Nes that Hashem surrounded us with the Ananei HaKavod and protected us in the harsh desert. When […]
VosIzNeias.com “The web site directory http://www.localsukkah.org has been designed for Jews to locate a Sukkah near to them so that they can go there to eat. The idea of this service is not to list every Sukkah, but to try and have a Sukkah listed for every area in which Jewish people may find themselves […]
“We’re between Times Square, Penn Station and Grand Central, so we’re definitely one of the most visible sukkahs in the world,” said Rabbi Joshua Metzger of Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan, who was presiding over the lunchtime guests on Thursday. While a pianist serenaded the crowd with a sophisticated version of “Take the A Train,” nearly drowned […]
World famous champion Jewish boxer, Dimitry Salita spent the morning davening in 770 along with his beloved rabbi, the Rebbe’s Shliach to Flatbush Rabbi Zalmen Liberow. The pair was accompanied by a television crew who filmed the boxer as he davened and shook the Lulav and Esrog. Chabad.info
The Mayor of New York City, Mayor Bloomberg spent a half hour last Friday, October 17th, with Crown Heights Community Leaders.Rabbi Chanina Sperlin, community activist and member of the Vaad hakahol of Crown Heights bentched lulav and esrog with the Mayor,Yisroel Melamed the son of Moshe Melamed Presented the mayor with a hand-crafted honey dish. Also present at the meeting were Eli […]
If you sit in the succah under any covering or canopy that is ten tefachim high you are under the canopy and you are not considered to be in a succah. What about if it is very sunny or raining and you open an umbrella? Are you in the succah? The Piskei Teshuvos (627:2) brings […]
1. From the Holy Kabbalists “The Mystical Dimension of Hakhel”“At the end of seven years, at the time of the Sabbatical year, on the festival of Sukkot….” [31, 10]If you will analyze the mystical dimension of the commandment of Hakhel, you will find that just as the Shemittah year itself is an allusion to the 7th millennium during which our universe will […]
“You may be wondering, for example, if it’s permissible to build your sukkah, the structure used during the week-long holiday for dining, entertaining and sometimes sleeping, out of the carcass of a tethered elephant. Or you may be hoping that you can set it up on the back of a camel. In both cases, the […]
