Swaddled by G!d

Swaddled by G!d (delivered by Rabbi J.B. Sacks on September 29, 2023) We dwell in temporary structures in order to remember, as the Torah depicts G!d explaining, “that I caused the Israelites to live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.”[1] In a famous rabbinic debate,[2] Rabbi Eliezer explains that […]

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Erev Sukkot: The Three Jewish Pigs

Erev Sukkot: The Three Jewish Pigs (Delivered by Student Rabbi Maayan Lev on October 9, 2022) Chag Samei-ach! It’s a great joy to be together tonight in the sukkah, a sukkah whose invisible branches criss-cross for miles around, creating a web-based canopy above our heads. But is this just a joke? Does an online sukkah […]

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