Receiving Divine Inspiration
During Simchat Beit HaSho’eivah of Sukkot 5782, HaRav Ginsburgh taught a long and content-rich shiur revolving around several different topics. The following is just a...
Category : The Jewish Year
Sensitive? The Etrog Challenge
In the words of the sages and in traditional teachings, many parallels are drawn between the Four Species and the organs of the body: the...
The Melody of the Schach
Rabbi Ginsburgh composed this melody on 12 Tishrei 5779 (2019). The Rav went to rest a bit before beginning to build his sukkah. When he...
Rabbi Moshe Segal: The Yom Kippur Shofar of Liberty
Long ago, the mitzvah of blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah was performed during Shacharit—the morning prayer. The Jerusalem Talmud[1] explains that the sages moved...
The Ba’al Shem Tov: When the Fox Forgot his Parables
The Midrash[1] relates the following parable: Once the lion, the king of the animals, became angry with all the animals. The animals consulted each other...
Blowing the Shofar from Elul to Yom Kippur
(Based on a class given on the 15th of Elul, 5775) Blowing the Shofar During the Month of Elul The Torah tells us to blow...
The Signs of the New Year: 5784
Following our annual custom, let us look at some of the many gematriot—numerical allusions—to the value of the year we are now beginning, 5784 since...
Good Morning, World
On Rosh Hashanah we pray, hear the shofar, eat an apple with honey and bless each other with “a good and sweet year.” But what...
Preparing for Selichot with Rebbe Michel of Zlotshov
* based on a shiur given on Motza’ei Shabbat 26 Elul 5773 Notes taken during class, not reviewed nor edited by HaRav Ginsburgh 1....
Elul: The Month of Self-Discovery
Elul is not just the pre-festive month. If you skip Elul and don’t give it any special attention, you might suddenly find yourself unprepared at...
