by Rabbi Sender Haber | Oct 19, 2008
If we wanted shelter we would stay at home. We go outside to the sukkah to show that G-d is in charge. We are at His mercy. More accurately, we are at our own mercy. The Mishna (Sukkah 2:9) teaches us that when we are rained upon in the sukkah it is with water that we...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Oct 13, 2008
The Medrash writes that Sukkos is the Rosh Hashana for Aveiros, the New Year for Sins. The freshness and purity of Yom Kippur remain untainted in the days leading up to Sukkos. We are too busy preparing for the holiday to do anything wrong. It is only on the first day...
