by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 12, 2022 | Sukkot, Tishrei
On December 19, 1963, Martin Luther King gave an unusual speech at Western Michigan University. He said: “Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word “maladjusted.” This word is the...
by Chaim Barzel | f 12, 2022 | Faith, Sukkot, Tishrei
By Chaim Barzel The Biblical commandment to build and sit in a sukkah (temporary dwelling) during the festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) is very beloved by the People of Israel. I recently read a story about a Jewish family in Berlin in 1938 who risked their...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 11, 2022 | Community, Psalms, Sukkot, Temple
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz I grew up reading the Tolkein series, so when I first set foot in a Yeshiva (school for Torah study) and saw a room full of bearded men learning in a strange language from huge tomes, I was thrilled. I was in Gandalf’s academy. Though I never...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 11, 2022 | Education, Parenting, Sukkot, Vayeilech
By Elie Mischel Today, the second day of the Sukkot holiday immediately following the Sabbatical year, is a very special day – a “once in seven years” kind of day! In Biblical times, every seven years, immediately following the Sabbatical year, the people of...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 6, 2022 | Emor, Faith, God, Happiness and Joy, Prayer, Sukkot
By Rafi Weinstein Today is the first day of the seven-day holiday known as Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). Though the Torah commands: “You shall live in booths seven days” (Leviticus 23:42), growing up in New York my family barely spent time in the sukkah...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 3, 2022 | Faith, God, Jonah, Light Unto the Nations, Prayer, Repentance, Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, Temple, Tishrei, Yom Kippur, Zechariah
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz When I think about the High Holidays, I picture synagogues full of Jews, the men wrapped in snow-white prayer shawls swaying silently, the women praying fervently. They are Jewish holidays and the pinnacle of the Hebrew calendar. These are...
