15 Oct BOOK REVIEW – BE HUGE: AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR RABBI RAPHAEL STOHL

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Chaim Yehuda Meyer: I read your book, Be Huge, over the Yomim Noraim and found it to be very transformative. My davening, learning, and ahavas Yisroel were all the more...

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14 Oct Q&A WITH RABBI GIL STUDENT

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When did you start blogging? I started blogging 20 years ago, in 2004, when blogs were still a new thing. I saw some blogs saying things about halachah that I thought was wrong and...

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14 Oct SUKKOS: ESROG

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Tzaddikim said that if people knew the value of the esrog, they would spend all the money in the world to acquire it. The Gemara (Succah 41) tells us that Raban Gamliel once paid one...

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14 Oct THOUGHTS TO HAVE WHILE IN THE SUKKAH

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Why do we celebrate Sukkos for seven days? After all, the Sukkah commemorates the Clouds of Glory that shielded us in the desert for a full forty years when we came out of Mitzraim. How does seven days...

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14 Oct SUKKOS QUESTIONS WITH RABBI MOSHE ELEFANT FROM THE OU

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Is a canvas sukkah kosher if the walls move in the wind? Sukkah walls that move in a regular wind are not valid walls. There are different opinions as to what type of movement invalidates a sukkah. To satisfy all opinions,...

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14 Oct SIMHAT TORAH: APPRECIATING THE ROADMAP TO THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT

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Simhat Torah is one of the happiest and joyous holidays of the year. However, Simhat Torah appears to be, chronologically, “out of order.” Since we received the Torah after Pesach, on Shavuot, we would expect the celebration of...

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14 Oct OF SUCCAHS AND IRON DOME

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Every day, from Rosh Chodesh Elul through Shemini Atzeres, we recite Psalm 27, “L’Dovid, HaShem, Ori V’yish’ee, HaShem, is my light and my salvation, meemee eerah, whom shall I fear?” We are living the...

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14 Oct SUKKOT: A COMMUNITY NEVER DIES IS IT NOT INSENSITIVE TO INTERRUPT SHIVAH FOR A HOLIDAY?

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Interruption of Shivah A teaching in the Mishna defines the duties of a Jew who is in mourning at the outset of a festival. “Regalim mafsikim,” state the sages, “festivals interrupt shivah,” the seven-day period of mourning following the death...

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14 Oct SHAKE YOURSELF

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A renowned Rabbi once did a favor for the Gerrer Rebbe, the Lev Simcha, which the Rebbe remembered for many years. Each year, on Erev Rosh Hashana, the Rebbe would call the man to check in on him...

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14 Oct SPECIAL SUKKOS RECIPES:

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UNSTUFFED CABBAGE INGREDIENTS: 1 (750 ml) bottle ketchup 1 liter ginger ale 1 whole cabbage, very coarsely shredded 2 lb ground beef 1 onion 1⁄2 cup rice 2 eggs garlic powder paprika freshly ground black pepper & salt DIRECTIONS: First night Succos, we always have...

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