by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Haber | Dec 31, 2013
“Hachodesh hazeh lechem rosh chadoshim”, this month shall be for you the first of months. In a beautiful essay Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch explains – כי הנה הסתיו עבר the winter has passed, the spring is coming and Shlomo Hamelech is describing the beauty of the coming...
by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Haber | Jan 24, 2013
What follows is based on Rabbi SR Hirsch. I wrote it in my own words, and have not done him full justice. Why do we celebrate the Rosh Hashanah of the trees in the middle of the bleak, cold, lifeless winter? The Gemara explains – Since most of the rains have already...
