From the weekly series
Pieces written for the Yamim Tovim in the course of the weekly series. The fuller holiday collections are the Tishrei and Pesach readers.
5785–86 · Year 5 · 1 page
It is known that Shemini Atzeres- is assigned special love by Hashem because we are culminating a month of ‘sitting’ with Hashem, and to keep us with Him just a little bit longer, we have this additional holiday; furthermore, on a year like ours, where in…
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5783–84 · Year 3 · 1 page
This Shabbos, we are celebrating Sukkos 5784. Although this week’s Parsha is V’Zos Habracha, we will not be reading it as part of the davening, rather, we wait until Simchas Torah. Part of this is because the Torah never “ends.” We don’t read the Parsha, say…
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5784–85 · Year 4 · 1 page
The final parsha of Chumash and the holiday of Sukkos are interconnected—the holiday rolls into Simchas Torah, where we restart the cycle of reading the Chumashim. Instead of taking a break, we immediately begin Bereishis. At the beginning of Parshas V’Zos…
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5781–82 · Year 1 · 1 page
It is stated in Maseches Pishtan of Talmud Aravi that in the year 5780 after creation likovid 19 tigers there will be a mageipha gedola that ends when a new nasi on the artzos habris is newly elected and wears chur karpas utcheiles. Rabbi Mustafa ben Sulman…
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5781–82 · Year 1 · 1 page
April 2-4, 2021 Nisan 20-22 5781 Simple Emuna Toras Chassidus enlightens us with the importance of the last days of Pesach. Much like the other two main holidays (Succos/Shavuos) the last days are also called Atzeres. Pesach itself is called by three names,…
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5782–83 · Year 2 · 2 pages
On Shevi’I shel pesach we read about the splitting of the Red Sea, and the song of Az Yashir which we the Jews rejoice over their salvation. The following is quoted from what I wrote in Parshas Beshalach. The gemara in Berachos tells us that we need to say a…
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5783–84 · Year 3 · 1 page
The Lubavitcher Rebbe is quoted as saying that on the 7th night of Pesach, the gates of heaven are open for all to ask requests from Hashem, “and there are no guards at the gates of Heaven for all to request.” (It is likened to Neilah Prayer, where the gates…
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5781–82 · Year 1 · 1 page
6-7 Sivan 5781 May 17-18, 2021 Shavuos is the holiday that represents the official marriage of the Jewish nation to Hashem through the Torah as a marriage contract. Prior to the Torah being revealed to the world, the Torah was the engagement document, the…
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5783–84 · Year 3 · 2 pages
It’s a wedding! The Jewish nation is the bride, and Hashem is the groom! Incredible that we get to renew our vows every year with Hashem officially! The name of the holiday lends to the renewal of the vows. The simple translation of the holiday name is weeks,…
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5785–86 · Year 5 · 3 pages
Part 1 This week’s Parsha is Bamidbar, which comes right before the holiday of Shavuos. Chassidus explains that Shabbos is both a culmination of the week past and an introduction to the week to come. Therefore, Parshas Bamidbar and Shavuos must have some…
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5786–87 · Year 6 · 2 pages
1 Shavuos 5786 Tonight, we celebrate Shavuos, the holiday that culminates our 49-day count, from the deliverance and redemption from slavery to the giving of the Torah, the defining moment in Jewish and, for that matter, human history. By the Torah being…
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5786–87 · Year 6 · 2 pages
I am writing this as someone who, although Chabad, grew up attending non-Lubavitch Mosdos in the city where I was raised. My primary time at day school was after Gimmel Tammuz, when the non-Lubavitch Frum Jewish world was at war with Lubavitchers and Chabad…
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