The Festival of Gathering: A Return to the Original Being
Aton Holzer offers an existential perspective on the transition from Yom Kippur to Sukkot and applies some Heideggerian concepts to the festival of gathering.
Rabbi Lamm, Sukkot, and the Spiritual Perils of Materialism
Can we solve the growing problem of materialism in the Orthodox community? Tzvi Sinensky explains how Rabbi Norman Lamm’s Sukkot sermons shine some light on the matter
Yeshiva University President Rabbi Ari Berman’s Opening Shiur
YU President Ari Berman's opening address, comparing YU to a Sukkah! Shlomo Zuckier captures this historic moment in his notes.
Climate Change and Prayers for Rain and Dew
By examining the prayers for rain and dew through the lens of meteorology and Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Lonely Man of Faith, Chaim Trachtman presents a unique religious model for thinking about climate change.
With Pain and With Might: Reserve Duty on the Northern Front
Gilad Goldberg describes the bewildering experience of reporting for emergency reserve duty on October 7.
Kohelet: Seeking to Uncover and Bury
Shlomo Zuckier seeks and uncovers rabbinic-Biblical intertextuality.
Antipodal Etrogim
Aaron Cohen surveys the fascinating literature surrounding antipodal etrogim.
Rabbinic Creativity and the Waters that would Consume the World
Levi Morrow explores how the Rabbis use creative exegesis to save the world
from drowning in a flood
Can I Use Zip-Ties To Hold Down My Sekhakh?
Dan Margulies offers a rundown of the sukkah zip-tie construction, the next
great halakhic frontier
The G-d of Our Faces
Merri Ukraincik contemplates G-d's role in our lives.
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