This Chol Hamoed Succos, singing sensation Mordechai Shapiro has teamed up with the mega producer Eli Gerstner from EG productions & will be performing at the Ford Amphitheater in Brooklyn...
THE BLIND GOLFER Charlie Boswell was a great athlete who became blind during World War II while rescuing his friend from a tank that was under fire. When he returned to...
A GIFT TO A MOTHER Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly...
There is a special mitzvah of simcha on Sukkos. Chazal teach us in Sukka (51a) that a person who never witnessed the Simchas Bais Hasho’eiva never witnessed true simcha in...
I am visiting my parents for the first days of Sukkos and my in-laws for the last days. We hung up, in my parent’s Sukkah, decorations that my children made...
The Bach teaches us that one of the unique features of the mitzvah of sukkah is that it is imperative to have the correct kavanah, concentration, when doing the mitzvah....
The halacha requires that one dwell in the sukkah for the duration of the yom tov in the same way one would live in his own home: eating, sleeping, learning,...
There is a famous story told of an overworked, underpaid wagon driver who once found himself helplessly lost in a land with no light. He finally met a group of...
The holiday of Sukkot is flavored by two distinctly different mitzvoth. The experience of four minim is the most aesthetically pleasing mitzvah and the arrangement is the only object referred...
Does the prohibition against washing dirty clothes on Chol Ha-Mo’ed, the intermediate days of the holiday, still apply today when doing laundry is relatively quick and easy?1 In theory, washing...