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The halachic system, like all legal systems, is on based on verifiable actions. What one may think when signing a contract is of little bearing;…
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While the Jerusalem Talmud rules that one makes a bracha upon construction of a sukkah (Sukkah 1:2), our practice is not to do so, seeing…
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In 1878, Yehuda Leib Gordon published a poem, Kotzo shel yud, in which he pokes fun at the technicalities of halacha. In his poem, a…
The Gemara derives the minimum height of a sukkah from two separate and very distinct sources. In fact, the first “source” is no source…
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We eat matza on Pesach to commemorate the matza eaten by our ancestors as slaves in Egypt and as newly freed people. The blowing of the shofar on…
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Masechet Sukkah holds a special place in my heart, being the first tractate I learned cover to cover. Its topics are interesting, wide-ranging,…