Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
She was born Jewish, but her mother had unwittingly gotten her involved in church. Could she reclaim Judaism as her own?
The Etrog grows on its tree for an entire year.
It grows from the loving summer sunlight
and from the cold winter darkness.
It grows from the furious autumn winds
and from the caresses of spring rain.
From all that comes to it, it grows.
And that is beauty.
Be an Etrog.
Reshimot #62.
Four types of vegetation are "taken" every day of the holiday of Sukkot. They are: lulav (palm frond), etrog (citron), hadasim (myrtles), and aravot (willows)
Five days after Yom Kippur, we shift gear and go outside to be in a flimsy hut called a sukkah—characterized by a state of complete joy. Learn all about the holiday of Sukkot.
The Egyptian Exodus involved breaking the bonds and limitation of Egypt in order to escape it. Chassidic teaching instructs to take this one step further: to step out of worldly limitations and bounds while remaining in the world. While functioning within the world we must transcend its limitations.
– Hayom Yom, Tevet 25
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