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| adam_text | THE
ESSENCE
OF THE
HOLY DAYS
Insights from the
Jewish Sages
AVRAHAM YAAKOV FINKEL
JASON ARONSON INC
Northvale, New Jersey
London
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: The Jewish Festivals xxi
Note to the Reader xxiii
1 yatnim Nora im: Days of Awe 1
Eluh Preparing for the Days of Awe 2
Acronym of Elul 3
Sounding the Shofar during Elul 4
Recitation of Psalm 27: Hashem On Veyish i 4
To Live in the House of God 5
No Ulterior Motive 6
ToVBeholdCod 6
Selkkot: Prayers of Supplication 7
Thirteen Attributes of Mercy 7
viii Contents
Lesson from a Peasant 9
Serve Yourself 9
The Fish Are Trembling 9
Every Day Is Bui 10
Finding the Way 10
Teshuvah for the Entire Year 11
Better Yourself 11
Even before Selichot 11
Standing before God 12
Like a Lamp 12
2 Rosh Hashanah: Day of Judgment 13
Meireishit: From the Beginning 14
Day of New Beginnings 14
Day of Judgment 15
Inscribe Us in the Book of Life 16
Sign of the Zodiac 16
Divine Scales of Justice 16
Rosh Hashanah: A Day of Rejoicing 17
Confusing Satan 18
Man s Sustenance 18
Rosh Hashanah Greetings 19
Apple Dipped in Honey 19
yoma Arichta: One Long Day 19
The King 20
Psalm 130 20
Faith Is the Answer 22
Why Does God Hide Himself? 22
Hidden Spark 23
Why Don t We Recite HallcR 23
Sounding of the Shofar 24
Why Do We Blow the Shofar? 25
Wake Up from Your Sleep! 25
To Confound Satan 26
Broken Heart 26
Mitzvah of Hearing the Shofar 27
Contents ix
Saved by the Mitzvah of Blowing the Shofar 27
Torah Reading on Rosh Hashanah 28
He Refused to Blow the Shofar 29
Sounds of the Shofar 30
Tekiah-Shevarim-Teruah-Tekiah 30
Secret Code 31
Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot 31
Accept God as Your Master 32
Avinu MalkeinulOut Father, Our King 33
Treat Us with Charity 33
Remembering and Forgetting 34
Akadah 35
Vision of the Golden Calf 35
The Wicked and the Good 36
Good to All 36
Language of Heaven 37
Like a Fly 37
Story of Rabbi Amnon 37
Fear of the Angels 39
Tashlich 40
Like Fish 40
Strategy of the Evil Inclination 41
Smashing Your Ego 41
Eye of a Needle 41
Greatness of a Baal Teshuvah s Prayer 42
Break Your Stubborn Heart 43
3 Ten Days of Teshuvah 45
Fast of Gedalyah 46
Shabbat Shuvah 46
Sermon 47
Overt and Covert Satan 47
Erev Yom Kippur: Eve of Yom Kippur 48
Twice as Much 49
How Can You Sit Down to Eat? 49
Take Appetite Suppressant Pill before
Yom Kippur? 50
x Contents
Immersion in the Mikveh 51
Seudah Mafseket 51
Best Deal 52
4 Yom Kippur 53
Five Afflictions of Yom Kippur 54
Power of Teshuvah 55
Teshuvah for Love and for Fear 55
Discovering the Straight Path 56
God s Answer 57
I d Rather Not Die 57
Once in Seventy Years 58
First Priority 58
Little Sins Are More Dangerous 58
Turn Around 59
Holy Sparks Inside of Sin 59
Like a Burning Candle 60
The Berditchever s Plea 60
5 Kol Nidrei: Evening Service 63
God; the Forgiver and Pardoner 64
He Forgives Our Iniquities 65
Viduy: Confessional Prayer 66
According to the Akf-Bet 67
We and Our Forefathers Sinned 67
For Sinning with the yetzer Hara 67
Breast-Beating 68
Strict about Lifesaving 68
Beyode im uvtlo yode im: Known and
Unknown Sins 69
Confusion of the Heart 69
v
Torah Reading on Yom Kippur 70
Conceit Is Worse than Sin 71
Vachai Bahem: Live by Keeping My Laws 71
* Why Did Jonah Run from God? 72
Why Do We Read the Book of Jonah? 72
A Study in Contrasts 73
Contents xi
Banishing Improper Thoughts 73
Those Who Only Knock on the Door 74
Avodah 74
White Vestments for the Yom Kippur Avodah 75
Ne ilah Service 76
Seal Us in the Book of Life 77
Their Needs Are Many 77
Next Year in Jerusalem 78
6 Sukkot: Festival of Rejoicing 79
Selected Laws of the Sukkot 80
Valid and Invalid Swfefaw 82
Believing Is Better than Seeing 82
Ushpizin: Special Guests 82
If Dwelling in the Sukkah Causes Discomfort 83
Why Is Sukkot in the Fall? 84
Shade of Faith 84
He Slept in the Sukkah 85
Most Beautiful Ornament 85
Seventy Bulls 86
Four Species Symbolize the Jewish People 86
Willow Twig and Lulav 87
The Lulav Must Be Your Own 88
Nothing but Happiness 88
War of Gog and Magog 89
Water Drawing 90
Kohelet 91
Superiority of Man over Beast 92
An Old and Foolish King 92
Laborer s Irritant 93
Let Your Garments Be White 93
Hoshana Kabbahv 94
God s Promise to Abraham 95
Shemini Atzeret 95
Meaning of Atzeret 96
Pure Rejoicing 96
xii Contents
Prayer for Rain 97
Mashiv Haruach 97
Rainfall and Resurrection 97
Only One Bull 98
Union with God 98
Farewell to the Sukkah 99
SimchatTorah 99
The Hakapt 100
Seven Hakafox 101
Torah Reading 102
Why Do We Rejoice on Simchat Torah? 103
Beginning the Torah Anew 103
Every Jew Rejoices on Simchat Torah 103
The Power of Dancing 104
The Torah Must Be Happy 104
Who Wrote the Final Sentences of the Torah? 105
Connecting the End to the Beginning 106
7 The Minor Festivals: Chanukah and Purim 107
Chanukah: Historical Background 108
Tales of Heroism and Martyrdom 112
Chanukah in the Talmud 113
Message of the Chanukah Lights 114
Laws ,of Lighting the Menorah 114
Other Chanukah Observances 116
Customs of Chanukah 116
References to Chanukah in the Torah 116
Why Eight Days? 117
An Intriguing Question 118
The Lights of Chanukah 119
Thirty-six Lights 119
Chasidic Interpretation of Chanukah 120
Festival for the Family 120
Miracle of the Oil 121
Ma ozTzur 121
Cleansing the Temple 122
Contents xiii
Purim: Brief Summary of Historical Events 123
Meaning of Pufim 127
Selected Laws of Purim 128
Customs of Purim 129
Purim-Yom Kippur 130
Fear and Love of God 130
Purim in the Warsaw Ghetto 131
Until You Cannot Tell the Difference 131
They Enjoyed It 132
Reading Backward 132
Haman in the Torah? 133
Esther in the Torah? 134
He Will Not Bow 134
An Astounding Omen 135
Amalek and Balaam 135
Chanukah and Purim 136
Why Is Hallel Not Said on Purim? 136
Why No Megliah for Chanukah? 137
The Power of Torah 137
Strength in Unity 137
8 Passover 139
Season of Rebirth 139
Sanctification of the Month 140
The Jewish Calendar 141
The Creation of Time 142
Seven yamin Tovim 143
The Life-Giving Spirit of yom Tov 143
The Symmetry of the yamin Tovim 144
Miracle of the Exodus 144
Commemorating the Exodus 145
Israel Is Like the Moon 146
Removing the Chametz 147
No Smugglers of Otametz 148
Chametz-Matzah 148
Chametz: The Evil Tendency 149
xiv Contents
The Difference between Chametz and Matzah 149
Matzah: The Bread of Freedom 150
Timeless Matzah 150
Shabbat Hagadol 151
A Long Sermon 152
Like a Bar Mitzvah 152
The Search for Chametz 152
The Fourteenth of Nisatt 153
Don t Deal Harshly with the Widow 154
The Seder 154
The Haggadah 155
The Five Organs of Speech 156
Passover: The Holiday of Free Speech 157
The Number Four 157
Not a Moment to Spare 158
The Egg on the Seder Plate 158
The Four Cups 159
The Symbols of Passover 159
9 The Onter 161
Counting the Omer 162
Interdependence of Torah and Sustenance 163
Significance of the Omer Count 163
Bring the Omer on Pesach 164
Reasons for Counting the Omer 164
The Forty-nine Gates 165
Counting the Days 165
The Commandment of Counting the Omer 166
The Mournful Period of Sefirat Ha omer 167
The Cycle of Seven 167
The Song of Songs 169
Holy of Holies 170
Two Ways of Looking 170
The Final Days of Passover 171
The Seventh Day 171
The First to Enter the Red Sea 171
Contents xv
Rejoicing at the Egyptians Downfall 172
The Song at the Sea 173
Song without an Ending 173
Conclusion of Passover 174
The Neshamah yeteirah, the Additional Soul 175
Sefirah and Lag Ba omer 176
Sefirah, a Time of Mourning 176
LagBa omer 177
Hallel 178
10 Shavuot 185
Seeing and Hearing 187
The Ten Commandments 188
The Fourth Commandment 189
The Torah and the Nations of the World 189
The Right and the Left Tablets 190 •
Receiving the Torah 191
Agreement without Involvement 192
The Torah and Israel Are Identical 192
The Fifth Commandment 192
Alef before Bet 193
Moses Receiving the Torah 194
Complete Silence 194
The Ten Commandments Addressed to
Mankind 195
The World Hinges on the Sixth Day 195
The Factor of Three 195
We Will Do and Hear 196
Man s Ups and Downs 196
The Tenth Commandment 197
Thoughts on Envy 198
Better than Gold and Honey 198
The Talmud, the Oral Law 199
Outward Appearance 199
Dairy Food on Shavuot 200
The Names of Shavuot 200
xvi Contents
Floral Decorations 201
Staying Awake 202
Akdamut and Azharot 202
For the Sake of the One Rose 202
The Final Words of the Ger Tzedek 203
Why No Mitzvot to Commemorate Shavuot? 204
The Number Seven 205
In a Thick Cloud 205
Accepting the Torah by Acclamation 206
Spiritual Climb 206
The Torah Is not in Heaven 207
yom Habikkurim: The Festival of First Fruits 208
Releasing the Holy Spark 209
The Book of Ruth 209
11 Rosh Chodesh - 211
Interrogation of Witnesses 213
Peace among the Heavenly Bodies 214
New Moon, Festivals, and Shabbat 215
Second Day of yom Tov 215
Intercalation 216
Months of the Year 217
Full and Deficient Months 218
TheRuleofAT-BASH 218
Blessing the New Month 219
Selected Laws of Rosh Chodesh 220
Women and Rosh Chodesh 221
Israel Is Like the Moon 221
The Jewish People Equated with the Moon 222
A Sin Offering to God 222
Eleven Offerings 222 -v
Israel s History Like the Lunar Cycle 223
Sanctification of the Moon: Kiddush Levattah 224
^ Jacob Compared with the Moon 224
^ Selected Laws of Kiddush Levattah 224
A Closing Word 225
Contents xvii
Appendix 227
Notes 235
Glossary 241
Bibliography 245
Index of Sages 251
Index of Scripture 253
Index of Subjects 257
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