Showing posts with label Sukot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sukot. Show all posts
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Walking out of the Sukkah

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Several current Israeli gedolei haposkim have said that if you make kiddush in the Sukkah, and walk out to wash netilas yadayim for hamotzi,...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Sukkos. Reb Meir Simcha about When Sukkos Got Its New Name, and My Suggestion about Ancient Origins.

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Reb Meir Simcha's interesting addition to the Gaon's vort.  The Gaon, of course, answers the Tur's question about the timing of ...
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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Lulav before Shachris-- A Tadir Kodem Problem

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I originally posted this in 2006.  I'm making minor changes and re-posting, because the original post only got one decent he'ara, a...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

בין איך משוגע

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My father zatzal used to tell stories about Reb Aizekel (Eizel) Charif.  In one of the stories, Reb Aizikel woke his rebbetzin up in middle ...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Yiddish Expressions and their Sources in Chazal- A Yavan in Sukkah

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This was originally posted in '12, but it has been updated.  And again, in 2015, with a great find. And again, in 2025. Today, when my...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Schach That is only Kosher on One Axis, and Eiruv Tavshilin a Few Days Before Yomtov.

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UPDATED OCTOBER 2020.  I realized that I was wrong and that Reb Moshe passels this schach no matter how you put it up.  See end of section I...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Sukkos in the Fall

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The Tur (OC 625) asks, if on Sukkos we re-enact our sojourn in the eponymous Sukkos in the desert, why does it occur in the Fall, when the e...
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