Shemini Atzeret 40 articles

Delivered 27 Cheshvan 5785 / October 29, 2024

From the book series Laws of the Holidays by Rabbi Yonatan Nacson; used with permission. Sitting in the Sukkah on the Seventh Day of Sukkot One may not take down his...

What is Shemini Atzeres (or Shemini Atzeret), you ask? Well, Pesach (Passover) has days of yom tov (Festivals, with Sabbath-like restrictions on labor) at both the beginning and the end. Technically...

Delivered at the OU Israel Center, 11 Tishrei 5784 / September 26, 2023 Rabbi Goldin’s shiur for the 2023 academic year is sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Menachem Marcus in Memory...

Delivered at the OU Israel Center, 4 Iyar 5783 – April 25, 2023 with a digression on Yom Hazikaron/Yom Haatzmaut Rabbi Breitowitz’s Tuesday Shiur is sponsored for the 2023 academic year...

with a short digression on Yom HaShoah Delivered at the OU Israel Center, 27 Nisan 5783 – April 18, 2023 Rabbi Breitowitz’s Tuesday Shiur is sponsored for the 2023 academic year...

Delivered 14 Marcheshvan 5783 / November 8, 2022

The chag of Sukkot isn’t anchored to a particular historical period or geographical location. It doesn’t commemorate a miraculous event that occurred on a specific day in history. Sheltered huts positioned...

And Moshe ascended, from the Plains of Moav, Mount Navo to the peak that faces Yericho.  And Hashem showed him the entire land from the Gilad to Dan.  (Sefer Devarim 34:1)...