https://shulchanaruchharav.com/after-sukkos-laws/After Sukkos summary of laws: Isru Chag, Tachanun, asking for rain, Sechach and Daled Minim after Sukkos, Shabbos Bereishis, Kiddush during the seventh hour

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In this week’s Shemini Atzeret replay episode of Honi's Circle we study the Prayer for Rain, Geshem, and a supplemental piyyut (liturgical poem) by Ruth Gan Kagan that adds Miriam to the list of ancestors whose merit we call upon to be given rain for a blessing. We talk about how this ancient prayer points to the fact that humans have always understood that water is a powerful force on which our lives depend, and in the times of floods, droughts, forest fires and hurricanes, having this

Send us a text In The Dance of Return, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath delivers a moving Simchat Torah sermon celebrating the miraculous return of the hostages, a moment when prophecy, pain, and prayer converge into pure joy. He draws a profound parallel between this homecoming and the essence of Simchat Torah, a holiday where Jews dance not because of ritual, but because of belonging. Rabbi Bernath reminds us that Jewish joy cannot be taken, it is divine, defiant, and eternal. Through the story ...

Shabbos 19 Tishrei

Shabbos 19 Tishrei

Friday 18 Tishrei

What’s the avodah of Yom Ha’atzmaut? Beyond the flags and barbecues, Rav Shlomo Katz opens Tehillim 107—“Hodu laHashem ki tov, ki le’olam chasdo”—to uncover the inner work of the day: cultivating awareness of the miracles we’re living through right now.Drawing parallels between Yetziat Mitzrayim and the modern return to Eretz Yisrael, Rav Shlomo explains that just as we retell the Exodus every year, we must also learn, teach, and feel the miracle of 1948 and everything that’s unfolded

Two children are fighting in the playground. Called into the principal’s office, each insists: “It all started when he hit me back.” This familiar joke captures something deeply human: our tendency to avoid responsibility by blaming others.

Rav Shlomo Katz opens Tehillim’s promise—“Atah takum, terachem Tzion… ki va mo’ed”—and asks: when does the time of geulah actually arrive? Drawing on the Kuzari and the Or HaChaim, he answers with a heart-level call: redemption awakens when we yearn—takh’lit hakisuf—and when we cherish every stone and speck of dust of Eretz Yisrael. This shiur reframes Yom HaAtzmaut’s miracle not as a date on a calendar, but as a lived return to our Father’s Shabbos table—home, belonging, and song.  Rav

Rav Shlomo speaks honestly about the paradox of Yom HaAtzmaut: longing for Mashiach now while learning to recognize Hashem’s “little-by-little” geulah. Drawing on Rav Moshe Soloveitchik and Rav Chaim Druckman (citing the Ran’s expansion of “Tzipita l’yeshuah b’yamecha?”), he asks: do we expect redemption with our days through our lived choices and perspective?With Rav Kook’s 1921 call for ezrahut Eretz Yisrael as backdrop, he contrasts our modern impulse to critique with the gratitude due

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