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Holiday Learning
Holiday Specific Participant Contributed Commentary
Below are some resources for Pesach, with material included for events occurring in 2024.
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YU Haggadah Supplement. YU Haggadah Supplement (PDF)
Here's a link to the YCT Seder Sense 2024 playlist and the YCTthe Seder Sense 2023 playlist on YCT's YouTube channel.
And here's a link to the 2024 YCT Passover Reader. Feel free to read online or download for your enjoyment over the holiday. (www.yctorah.org) YCT Haggadah Supplement 2024
Hartman Institute Supplement 2024In Every Generation (Hartman Institute) Hartman Haggadah Supplement (Download)
Practice and Commemoration of the Hostages
Prayer for Hostages ( Chief Rabbi Lau)
Sefaria has source material from Tanakh and Source Sheets that are contributed by the Safaria community offering insights into Pesach and the Hagaddah:
- Sefaria Pesach Source
- Sefaria Sources Passover
- Sefaria source Haggadah
- Sefaria Hagaddah Source Sheets
- Sefaria - Make your own Hagaddah
mjb4 (Comments on Elijah through the ages)
This unity drawing was met with skeptics and supporters
Nusach for Pesach:
Tisha Ba'Av: Summary of R. Sacks on Tisha Ba'Av (R Michael Epstein)
High Holidays: https://www.hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/lifnai-ve-lifnim-innermost-sanctum
Rosh HaShanah & Yom Kippur:
Topic: Loneliness (R. East Seminar, 1 Hour Video)
R. East Written Commentary on Loneliness (Sefaria Reference)
R. East's commentary begins with an extended quote from Surgeon General Murthy's commentary on the loneliness epidemic. R. Brous (IKAR) YK's focus is also on the “epidemic of loneliness” and she had a sit-down discussion with SG Murphy which was interesting, and obviously quite relevant. ( https://www.ivoox.com/loneliness-community-and-why-we-need-one-another-audios-mp3_rf_116680200_1.html) Vivek Murthy / R S Brous Loneliness Discussion
R. Shmuly'sCommentary series site with many video presentations from his podcast by guest lecturers.
Hadar - RH: Hadar
Topic: Akeda -https://www.thetorah.com/article/akeda-and-rosh-hashanah ("thetorah" is a rich collection of responsa)
FYT Session:
This week we will be preparing for Rosh HaShannah and also looking at the Torah portions related to Rosh HaShannah.
- R Soloveichik has assembled 10 separate short podcasts on the upcoming holidays: https://meirsoloveichik.com/high-holidays-5784/?utm_source=MeirSoloveichik.com%20Active%20Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Days%20of%20Awe%20to%20Subs&_kx=IEge07ijGI64Zi7Vr5P7ZaGmroL994gUGxZ9IqkGzUI%3D.LFdrfw
- Also, a Commentary you might want to read, called: The Akeida and Us: https://meirsoloveichik.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Genesis-Weekly-4_FI.pdf
- A series of short messages that Rabbi Sacks delivered during his lifetime on Rosh Hashanah: https://media.rabbisacks.org/20230911092353/RH-Collection-Rosh-Hashanah-Messages-compilation-compendium-inspiration-new-year.pdf?_gl=1*41ah05*_ga*MTg5NDExMDIzNS4xNjkxMDIzNTM2*_ga_DQPY67KGVV*MTY5NDYyMzEwNS4xNS4xLjE2OTQ2MjMxMTYuNDkuMC4w
- The Binding of Isaac: https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/vayera/the-binding-of-isaac/
- Negative Capability: https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/vayera/negative-capability/
- The Space Between Us: https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/vayera/the-space-between-us/
A short Summary of the Torah portions for Rosh HaShana, from Chabad.org:
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Rosh Hashanah Torah Readings in a Nutshell Genesis 21:1–34; Genesis 22:1–24Day 1: G‑d remembers Sarah, and gives her and Abraham a son, who is named Isaac (Yitzchak), meaning “will laugh”; Abraham is then one hundred years old, and Sarah ninety. Isaac is circumcised at the age of eight days. Hagar and Ishmael are banished from Abraham’s home and wander in the desert; G‑d hears the cry of the dying lad, and saves his life by showing his mother a well. The Philistine king Abimelech makes a treaty with Abraham at Be’er Sheba. Day 2: G‑d commands Abraham to sacrifice his son on Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount) in Jerusalem. Isaac is bound and placed on the altar, and Abraham raises the knife to slaughter his son. A voice from heaven calls to stop him, saying that it was a test; a ram, caught in the undergrowth by its horns, is offered in Isaac’s place. |
Succot: (Kohelet)
- Happiness is to be found in being, not in having; https://www.rabbisacks.org/archive/happiness-is-to-be-found-in-being-not-in-having/
- Kohelet, Tolstoy and the Red Heifer: https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/chukat/kohelet-tolstoy-and-the-red-heifer/
- A short podcast - Kohelet: Radical Joy: https://www.rabbisacks.org/archive/kohelet-radical-joy/
- Another short podcast: Kohelet’s Identity Crisis: https://www.rabbisacks.org/archive/kohelets-identity-crisis/
- A short podcast - “The King and I - What does this book teach us about the Meaning of Life"; https://meirsoloveichik.com/bible-365/the-king-and-the-i/
- Another short podcast - “Hevel and the Meaning of Life”: https://meirsoloveichik.com/bible-365/hevel-and-the-meaning-of-life/
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