Squash Sensations for the Holiday Table
Beyond hanging in the sukkah, what does one actually do with a gourd?
Rosh Hashanah: Let There Be Light
The following essay is excerpted from “Festivals of Faith: Reflections on the Jewish Holidays” by Rabbi Norman Lamm, edited by Dr. David Shatz and Rabbi Simon Posner (OU Press/Ktav, 2011). This sermon was delivered by Rabbi Lamm in 1961.
The Holiday Cooking Marathon
Tishrei is about the journey, rather than getting to the finish line.
Rosh Hashanah and the Exodus: The Missing Link
One of the favorite “great insights” of apikorsim is their opt-repeated claim that our holidays originated as agricultural festivals and follow the natural order of the seasons. Only “later”, they say, “the Rabbis” superimposed historical or spiritual meaning upon the festivals. That nature and history are one, that they have one Source, that there can […]