OPINION
& COMMENT
Happiness Must Bring Unity
Succos is known as zeman simchoseinu, the time of our
happiness, but modern society, and certainly modern secular,
non-Jewish society, has completely lost touch with what
happiness is.
Who Will Bring Us Tidings of Our Redemption and How Will
We Know That It Has Truly Arrived?
Prepared from divrei Torah of HaRav Yosef Sholom
Eliashiv, by Rav Avrohom Tzvi Yisraelsohn
The mishnah in Yoma (3:1) tells us that every
morning the deputy Cohen used to tell the
cohanim to climb to a high vantage point and look at
the sky to see whether the time had arrived for the
shechitah of the daily morning tomid.
Customs and Practices
from Maran HaRav Shach, ztvk'l
Temporary Residence
Maran was very particular that the sechach covering of
his succah be very thick so as not to have any holes
(air spaces) and that it remain dark to the eye from the
outside, also that it be impervious to rain.
Succos: Rishon Lecheshbon -- The Beginning of
Accountability
By Rav Zev Leff
Rav Leffs insights are a regular feature of the print edition
of Yated Ne'eman-Bnei Brak. They are included here in this special
Succos edition.
Judging Favorably: A Middos Workshop
Based on the shiurim of Rav Dovid Siegel
Part I
Through the window of a non-kosher restaurant, someone once
saw a scene that would have floored many of us. A prominent
communal leader was sitting inside, eating lobster! What
would you think? So . . . he's not really as sincere a Jew as
everyone believes.
Gaivah: The Origin of Sin and the Fruits of Daas
by Rav Shlomo Furst
A midrash cited in the sefer Kol Eliyohu (Parshas
Bereishis 5), explains why Odom Horishon sinned. Very
cryptically, it declares: "Because he saw two and did not see
three."
Understanding the Depths of Avodoh Zora
by Mordecai Plaut
Avodoh zora is a prohibition that has been in the news
recently. It is arguably the most serious issur that
there is, in all times and in all places, but it has been
basically very remote from modern life, boruch Hashem.
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