by Rabbi Sender Haber | Sep 28, 2018
On Shabbos Chol Hamoed Sukkos, we say a special Hoshana from Rabbi Menachem ben Machir who lived about 1000 years ago. He is also the author of some of the Kinos and the ‘Reshus’ for the Chassan Torah on Simchas Torah. In the first couplet of the Hoshana we ask Hashem...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Sep 27, 2015
The Torah commands us sit in the Sukkah for seven days so that we can remember that G-d put us in Sukkos when we left Egypt. The commandment is to dwell in the Sukkah as we would in our house. If it is raining, we are not obligated to sit in the Succah. As a matter of...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Oct 11, 2012
On Shabbos Chol Hamoed Sukkos, we say a special Hoshana from Rabbi Menachem ben Machir who lived about 1000 years ago. He is also the author of some of the Kinos that we say on Tisha B’av and of the ‘Reshus’ for the Chassan Torah on Simchas Torah. In the first couplet...