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10/05/202310/05/2023

Jerusalem: The Sukkah of Peace

Every day, when praying tefilat Arvit, we recite the blessing of hashkiveinu, asking Hashem to safeguard us from all kinds of harm. In this beracha, we request that Hashem spread His sukkat shlomecha, His canopy of peace, upon us. While our liturgy is filled with references to this concept of the sukkah shel shalom, the […]

04/29/202104/29/2021

The Demands of Jerusalem

From our earliest sources, we find that the people of Yerushalayim took upon themselves a higher level of stringency than the average Jew. For example, the Mishna in Sukkah relates that the residents of Yerushalahyim would carry their Lulav and Etrog the entire day. Fast forwarding two thousand years, the custom of Yerushalayim today is […]