Why Spend So Much Money on Jewish Holidays?

B"H


Tishrei 11, 5773 * September 27, 2012

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Editor's Note:

Dear friends,

Do your Sukkot dinner plans include steaming hot soup and thick cozy sweaters? Or would iced drinks better fit the bill? Will you be contending with chilly winds, or a heat wave? Perhaps buzzing bees and pesky mosquitoes will be among the (uninvited) guests in the sukkah where you will spend the coming holiday.

Wherever you live, "eating out" takes on a whole new meaning on Sukkot. Far from a five-star restaurant, or even the simple conveniences of our homes, we brave the elements and trade secure roofs for flimsy vegetation overhead.

This puts us one step closer to our Creator, in whom we have complete faith. We trade climate control for G‑d-controlled climate.

Long ago, our ancestors acted on this faith when they left the civilization of Egypt and began a forty-year journey into the wilderness. "So said the L‑rd: I remember to you the lovingkindness of your youth . . . your following Me in the desert, in a land not sown." (Jeremiah 2:2)

Relive history this year. Enjoy the delicious food and company of friends and family in the sukkah, and truly feel G‑d's loving care and protection surrounding you.

Rochel Chein,
Responder for Ask the Rabbi @ Chabad.org



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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:

SUKKOT TOOLKIT

Sukkot

Virtually everything you need to know about the holiday of Sukkot: How-To Guides, Sukkah and "Four Kinds" Wizards, Essays and Insights, Recipes, Stories, Multimedia, and much more!

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=480F49D476669BD6B87722818461F366&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


How to Do the Four Kinds (Chabad.org Staff)


Four types of vegetation are taken every day of the holiday of Sukkot. Why these four? And how do we go about doing this mitzvah?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C55EDC6AAE95A5C224420EAB22643FC5&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


How to Build a Sukkah (Chabad.org Staff)


This sukkah wizard will lead you through the fun mitzvah of building and dwelling in a sukkah—from the permitted and required components in its structure, to the basic rules of living in the sukkah.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=21B2AA444B67820BC323E02AE62EACAD&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


SUKKOT READINGS

The Sukkah Is Now (By Tzvi Freeman)


The sukkah, when done by the book, is incongruence itself: Live in a temporary structure as though it were permanent. What other structure does that remind you of?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=503716832A0127306C71C860F8425FCC&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


One Twig and One Leaf (Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe)


The very virtues of the other three kinds—the understanding of the lulav, the feeling of the hadas, the across-the-board perfection of the etrog—spell their deficiency.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=479D3B0562350FA457FAA9C065F8F33B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Lessons from a Temporary Supermom (By Sara Esther Crispe)


Why would I be so quick to take care of Zoe, a little girl I don't know and will most likely never see again, when I didn't seem to have that kind of time, patience or ability for my own baby?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=44898F5B81CD91BB5BDBF44703CE1CF9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Holistic Holiness (By Mendel Kalmenson)


Why is the holiday named after the mitzvah of sukkah? Why was this mitzvah chosen to represent the inner message of the holiday—what of the holiday's other mitzvot?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=8BA0084EAD2F9A34D2D8788FA9D570B4&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


PARSHAH

The Origins of Jewish Music (By Mendel Kalmenson)


Surely, Moses had lots of things to do on his last living day. Yet in his final hours, he is commissioned by G-d to write and teach music.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1BAAC43BFC67BF34ECF23AC77F7E6AE5&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Haazinu in a Nutshell


A 70-line "song" delivered by Moses to the people of Israel on the last day of his earthly life and his ascent to Har Nebo to glimpse the Land of Israel.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CD69EC50E7C60CC070956156F3E52237&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


VIDEO

Connection (By Dovid Taub)


Two little stick men in a park discuss methods of staying connected to G-d.

WATCH (1:14) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1CE6AFA37F66A44790249504EB2D3270&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


All About Sukkot with Dina (By Dovid Taub and Yitzchak Feigenbaum)


A short and sweet overview of the Sukkot mitzvahs, with drawings to match.

WATCH (1:18) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=4AA380D587E6D5C1CB180F5D8E4E0973&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Pre-Sukkot Gathering with the Rebbe


An hour-long excerpt from a 1980 recording of the Rebbe's pre-Sukkot gathering on the 13th day of the month of Tishrei, the yahrzeit of the fourth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel Schneerson (1834–1882).

WATCH (1:04:33) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A95C576E2847F2AD092DF3509451F223&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Why Spend So Much Money on Jewish Holidays? (By Mendy Kaminker)

I don't get it. Someone in the synagogue told me that he spent over a hundred dollars on his lulav and etrog set for the holiday of Sukkot. Why would he do that?

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Remarrying with Teenage Children? (By Beryl Tritel)


I am a 50-year-old man, and I have been widowed for the last two years. I would like to start dating again, but my daughters, now ages 14 and 16, feel very differently . . .

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STORY

Never Demolish a Sukkah (By Yerachmiel Tilles)


Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna scolds an ungrateful judge.

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