All posts in: Festivals/Chagim

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  Chanukah

  7 years ago

  Chanuka – The Festival of Light

  Chanuka is often described as the Festival of Lights. We find “light” being used in regard to the mitzvah of Pesach where the Gemora learns that one should use a light ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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  Rosh-Hashana

  7 years ago

  Crowning the King

  One of the pivotal aspects of Rosh Hashana is “Malchius — accepting Hashem’s Kingship.” Yet, this is not special to Rosh Hashana; in fact, every day when ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
• Chanukah

  7 years ago

  CHANNUKAH

  CHANNUKAH SAMEACH!! a great rabbi, HILLEL, taught that on the first night of Chanukah we light one candle and each successive night we add an additional candle until ..

  Written by Ben Rose
• Chanukah

  7 years ago

  Chanukah – Publicity Stunt!

  Why is it that by the Mitzvah of lighting the lights on Chanukah there is a special emphasis on פרסומי ניסא – publicising the Miracle? We don’t find ..

  Written by Yaakov Hibbert
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  A Quick Halachic Guide to the Seder Night – (Print out for your Seder?!)

  Seder night is possibly the most celebrated Jewish festival in the year. In some irreligious homes the Seder is conducted and then the family go off and watch the film ..

  Written by d fine
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: Kill The Jews

  We say on seder night, “An Aramean tried to destroy my father” (implying the whole Jewish people). How do we know this? The Gemorah in Gittin 64a relates ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Pesach: Tam

  Tam- The Simple Child ? We are all familiar with the simple child in the Pesach Haggadah’s Four Questions. Tam in this context is normally interpreted to mean ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Purim

  7 years ago

  isn’t purim the worst possible name?

  The festival is named purim (‘lottery’) after the lottery that Hamman cast to determine the day the Jews would all be killed. Is this not a rather inappropriate ..

  Written by d fine
• Purim

  7 years ago

  You never know who is knocking at the door

  Purim is the most hectic of days for every Jew – how much more so for the great Rosh Yeshivah, and leader of his generation, R’ Chaim Volozhiner. R’ ..

  Written by Ben Rose
• Rosh-Hashana

  7 years ago

  Relying on ‘zos!’

  My dad once told me the following vort that he heard; i think it’s originally from the Kotzker Rav… For a good month and ten days from rosh chodesh elul ..

  Written by d fine