“So we’ll be building our sukkah on Sunday,” I said to my kid a few days ago. “Wait, what?” he asked. “I thought Sukkot was a week and four days after Yom Kippur!” Nope, I told him: it’s just four days after. “Oh yay,” he said. “That means Sukkot is sooner than I thought!”
This guest post is the D’var Torah that CBI member Ziva Larson offered at Rosh Hashanah 2 Morning Services on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
It’s Elul: the month that leads us to the Days of Awe and the new year. Ready or not, here we come.
This guest post is the D’var Torah that CBI member Ziva Larson offered at Shabbat Morning Services on Saturday, August 27, 2022.
As I write these words, it isn’t yet quite August. But believe it or not, we’re on the runway to the Days of Awe.
Oy, what a week it’s been. (And when, in recent memory, have we reached Friday afternoon and not felt that way?)
I didn’t expect to spend Shavuot in the hospital recovering from a heart attack, but life is full of surprises.