Sh’mini Atzeret: Universality, Now Particularity (delivered by Rabbi J.B. Sacks on October 6, 2023) Sukkot represents more clearly than any other festival the dualities of Judaism. Most especially, the holiday holds up the tension between the universality of nature and the particularity of history. The aspect of Sukkot that focuses upon rainfall, harvest, and climate, […]

Shabbat of Sukkot: Kohelet Through The Lens of Yizkor (Delivered by Student Rabbi on October 17, 2022) Over the course of our lives, the number of people we carry with us grows and grows. Sometimes that number starts when we are very young. Some of us find healing. Some of us don’t. Some people find […]

Sh’mini Atzeret: Reconsidering Our Relationship to Time (Delivered by Rabbi Sacks on October 16, 2022) If you were alive in the early days of television, you might remember one of the first television game shows, “Beat The Clock.” It actually began as a radio show in 1948 called Time’s A’ Wastin and later called Beat […]