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This chapter is the first comprehensive list of all the holidays since Exodus chapters 23 and 34. There are a few differences between the lists. The Leviticus list first discusses Shabbat and then lists the holidays in chronological order with Passover first followed by Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. The Exodus lists only included the three festival holidays. In those chapters, Passover is given the most detail including the reason behind the festival and the special commandments. Sukkot and Shavuot are only referred to by their agricultural names and very little else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Leviticus 23 also explains the sacrifices for each holiday. This makes sense given that the book of Leviticus focuses on the Mishkan and sacrificial rites. In addition to a more extensive list of the specific mitzvot of Sukkot, Leviticus 23 also gives the reason for the holiday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You shall observe it as a festival of God for seven days in the year; you shall observe it in the seventh month as a law for all time, throughout the ages. You shall live in booths (<\/span>sukkot<\/span><\/em>) seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in booths; in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt (verses 41-43).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Two interesting questions arise here. The first is what are the <\/span>sukkot<\/span><\/em>? The Torah never actually mentions that the Israelites lived in <\/span>sukkot<\/span><\/em>, usually they are in tents. The second question is why does the Torah command that Sukkot be \u201ca law for all time, throughout the ages\u201d?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some commentators explain that the protective <\/span>sukkot<\/em> <\/span>were actually \u201cthe clouds of glory\u201d protecting the people. This answer helps answer the second question, along with the comparison between Passover and Sukkot. Passover is the historical holiday remembering the Exodus. There may come a time in the future when remembering the Exodus is overshadowed by a greater redemption, such as in the messianic age. Sukkot, though, is eternal. The protection of the <\/span>sukkot<\/em> <\/span>occurred during the wilderness, but Sukkot does not commemorate a specific event. Instead, the commemoration is about God protecting the people during a transition period. That message is eternal. God will always be there to protect his people between any exodus and any redemptive period.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Offering the list of biblical festivals and holy days, the 23<\/span>rd<\/span> chapter of Leviticus opens with a general instruction, \u201cThese are my fixed times, the fixed times of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as holy occasions.\u201d At the very head of the list of holy days and festivals, pride of place is given to the Sabbath: \u201cOn six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a sabbath of complete rest, a sacred occasion.\u201d What follows after that is a list of each festival, in the proper order.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why is Shabbat at the head of the list? And why are the festivals linked together in an ordered series? A clue may be offered in the number seven.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shabbat is, as is widely known, the seventh day, set apart and made holy. But what is less immediately clear is that with the inclusion of Shabbat, we are presented a list of seven holy occasions: 1. Shabbat, 2. Pesa\u05d1h, 3. Matzot, 4. Omer counting and Shavuot, 5. First Day of the Seventh Month (later known as Rosh HaShanah, 6. Yom Kippur, and 7. Sukkot.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are given 2 interlocking cycles of seven: the seventh day, every week, and the seven holy occasions, cycling the entire year.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Where else do we have such a pattern? In Shemitah<\/em> and Yovel<\/em>, the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, when the seventh year is made holy and the year after the seven times seventh year is also made holy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Seven is clearly a portal into some deeper expression. The Bible doesn\u2019t offer us a specific justification for this number that gazes out as us, but I\u2019d like to notice that seven is also the number of openings on a human face: two eyes, two nostrils, two ears, one mouth. The locus of our identity is the face, marked by seven. So too the locus of the holiness we discover in time is marked by seven.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God \u201cfaces\u201d us through the sacred days that escort us through our weeks and years, hallowing our journey through time. And we, in turn, seek the blessing of God\u2019s face on us and our loved ones, an ancient and recurring expression of shalom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Read chapter 23 carefully, and you'll find you're seeing double. There are two openings and two closings, two sets of holidays, and two versions of Sukkot. This isn't repetition, but a representation of the two types of holy time. There is holy time-out, and then there is holy time-in.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The paradigm of holy time-out is Shabbat. This is the holiness of pausing your creative work, taking a step outside, and taking stock. On a weekly basis, we experience this on the seventh day. On a yearly basis, in a more intense way, we do it in the seventh month, during the cycle of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, festivals called '<\/span>Shabbaton<\/span><\/i>'.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what about the rest of the time? This, too, is holy. \"For six days you work\", the rabbis say, is also a <\/span>mitzvah<\/span><\/em>. This holiness, the active holiness of time-in, is given expression during the cycle of Pesach-Shavuot-Sukkot, busy, active holidays, full of sacrifices, rituals, obligations, and symbols. During these holidays, we take everything we gather, everything we produce, and we declare that it, too, is holy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there is a single verse, smack in the middle of the chapter, which doesn't have anything to do with any of this. Which, of course, means that it has everything to do with all of this, and that it holds the key to an even deeper understanding of this concept.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In verse 22, a propos of almost nothing, the Torah repeats some laws of charity we already learned only a few chapters ago.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"And when you harvest the harvest of your land, don't destroy the corner of your land as you harvest, and don't collect the gleanings of the harvest, leave it for the poor and the stranger, I am the Lord your God.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some people don't realize that there can be holiness in time at all. Some people recognize it, but only appreciate one type: either the holiness of time-out, without seeing how one's daily life itself can be made holy, or the holiness of time-in, without appreciating the need to occasionally step outside and evaluate. And some people appreciate both types, but see them as utterly distinct. But the ultimate expression of holiness of time is when both types of holiness are brought together, and this is found in the mitzvot of <\/span>leket<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>peah<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>which ask the person in the throes of creative activity to stop, to hold back, and to leave for those less fortunate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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When Leviticus 23 offers its portrait of the holiday cycle, it attaches a special mandate to Sukkot: \u201cYou shall rejoice (<\/span>u-semachtem<\/span><\/em>) before the Lord your God seven days\u201d (Leviticus 23:40). Of all the sacred days of the year, Sukkot alone is explicitly linked to joy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In terms of the holiday\u2019s agricultural dimension, the link is obvious: During this fall festival the harvest is being gathered, and Israel is thankful for its bounty. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what about the historical dimension? What historical event is the source of Sukkot joy? Pesach recalls and re-enacts the Exodus from Egypt. Shavuot, in the rabbinic imagination, recalls and re-enacts the revelation at Mount Sinai. Each of these two spring festivals marks one of Judaism\u2019s foundational events. Which orienting moment does Sukkot recall? The striking answer is that Sukkot harkens back to... no particular event at all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is something profoundly surprising here: The festivals focused on the two defining events in Jewish history and theology\u2014Exodus and Sinai\u2014are not the ones Judaism most powerfully connects with joy. The most joyous days of the year do not commemorate earth-shattering, world-transforming events but rather the arduous and protracted journey from Exodus to destination. To be sure, in the biblical account God is radically present with Israel in the desert\u2014and memories of God\u2019s providential care lie at the heart of the holiday. And yet Judaism does not primarily connect joy to the great moments when God interrupts history and turns things upside down, but rather to something far more sober\u2014to the attempt to live with God in the day-to-day march through the desert, through history, and through life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is the joy of the quotidian and the pedestrian\u2014the utterly non-ecstatic; it is the joy of commitment and responsibility rather than of uplift and exhilaration. Covenant is not just about intimacy; it is also, and fundamentally, about faithfulness. Note the wonderful paradox here: Sukkot is the holiday that celebrates the non-holiday (the <\/span>yontef<\/em> <\/span>that delights in c<\/em><\/span>hol<\/span><\/em>), the sacred time that celebrates regular time, the festival that celebrates not the high points but the morning after\u2014and the morning after that as well. Like a good marriage, the covenant between God and Israel requires moments of excitement and jubilation. 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What if
\r\nthat afternoon instead of making love
\r\nin the sewing room you\u2019d
\r\ncooked in the kitchen
\r\nperfecting what would become
\r\nyour family\u2019s famous zucchini bread recipe or
\r\nwhat if
\r\nyou and Daddy had just talked?<\/p>\r\n

What if
\r\nyou decided that afternoon
\r\nto read a book instead,
\r\nand what was it
\r\nmade you decide to make love
\r\nthe second day of Rosh HaShanah
\r\nand that makes us toast my conception each year<\/p>\r\n

with champagne? \u00a0Would I
\r\nhave turned out differently or would I
\r\nhave received someone else\u2019s fate if I
\r\nhad been conceived at another moment?<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

Would the angel in charge of conception still have
\r\nplaced the same drop of semen before the Holy One
\r\nand asked, Master of the universe what
\r\nis to happen to this drop?<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

Published - Kalliope, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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When he was old and had been a famous poet for a long time, Thomas Stearns Eliot thought that he could fold time in on itself. His last collection of poems, <\/span>Four Quartets<\/span><\/i>, has an eddying, tidal motion to it, with events echoing and repeating. It sounds like a mantra, and it portrays the world as composed of returning and recurring truths. It measures \u201ctime not our time,\u201d the deep and abiding cadences of a world for which we are ephemera. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The East Coker section of the poem relentlessly repeats \u201cin my end is my beginning,\u201d as if to wish away the long and short of time\u2019s passage altogether. The distance from beginning to end is where plot happens, and where a life transpires. If the two are the same, we are in the realm of the prophetic or eternal. Forget nothing new transpiring under the sun; if its rising is the same, we live in the glare of an ever-waxing twilight.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This week\u2019s chapter outlines the Jewish understanding of time. It begins with Shabbat, the one day of the week that gives it tincture and purpose. The week is a granular unit of time that is nevertheless feels like a journey in miniature, that adds up to an arc. Palimpsestically, this kind of time is layered on top of other ways of wending through our allotment- the month-based holidays like Pesach, Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret and the individual notching of days that brings us through the Omer and to Shavuot. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

These markings of time overlap, like a symphony made of subtly different beats. They speak to the human need for consistency and differentiation, exception embedded within routine. When joined to the larger demarcations of Shemitah and Yovel, the year of release and the jubilee, they present life as a whole host of endings and beginnings, jostling us along, day to day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In this chapter, God tells Moses to tell the children of Israel (v. 2): \"Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: These are My fixed times, the fixed times of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as sacred occasions.\" Then, in verse 3, He commands them about the Shabbat, calling it a \"mikra kodesh,\" a sacred occasion \u2013 but not using the term \"mo'ed,\" or \u201cfixed time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Verse 4 opens with \u201cthese are the set times of God\u2026\u201d, an opening line that suggests Shabbat was not included in this category. As a result, many commentators wondered what Shabbat was doing in this context. After all, there are new details here about some of the holidays not included in the texts where they were mentioned in the book of Exodus. Shabbat, on the other hand, has been explained in detail in other locations. If Shabbat was a mo\u2019ed<\/em>, its inclusion on this list would make sense. If it is not, why should it appear directly before?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commentators like Rashi, Ramban and Kli Yakar have interesting, if narrow, legal approaches. The juxtaposition of Shabbat and the mo\u2019adim<\/em> allows us to ask ritual legal questions such as whether the observance of holidays takes precedence over the observance of Shabbat (it does not) or whether proclaiming the leap year can take precedence over Shabbat (likewise).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We can also think about the grander structural contrast between Shabbat and the other mo\u2019adim<\/em>. Shabbat occurs once every 7 days without our intervention, but in Biblical times the communal leadership declared Rosh Chodesh, which determined the dates of the holidays. Where Shabbat is routine, the mo\u2019adim<\/em> are out of the ordinary. Some people feel most inspired by unique, special experiences \u2013 the novelty of searching for chametz<\/em>, leavened bread before Pesach, or eating cheesecake when you might otherwise be going about your business on a random Monday.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, Judaism requires observance both through the routine, weekly Shabbat observance and the out-of-the-ordinary holiday experiences. Our relationship with God cannot be sustained from Sukkot to Pesach solely on the memory of a fantastic Simchat Torah. The routine Shabbat experience keeps the relationship strong, even if it is a less \"exciting\" experience.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Mo\u2019ed<\/em> is translated as \u201cset time\u201d but it bears similarity to the Hebrew root ayin daled<\/em>, which means witness. Many of these mo\u2019adim<\/em> bear witness to God\u2019s wonders, which Ramban discusses explicitly in Deuteronomy (see his comments on 6:1). 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In Leviticus 23, one of the Torah\u2019s major accounts of the festival calendar, after the description of the Temple rites of Shavuot (Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks), the text repeats the commandments of <\/span>peah<\/em> <\/span>and <\/span>leket<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>to leave the corners of the fields and the unharvested gleanings of the crops for the poor. Given the ritual focus of the chapter, this ethical addition is even more remarkable. Commentators, however, generally gloss this as a simple mental association with the harvest season of Shavuot, or as a general reminder that there are social obligations beyond the ritual ones.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there\u2019s a deeper reason.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the context of the pilgrimage festivals, Pesach, with its unleavened bread and arduous dietary restrictions is clearly in some profound way about food. Sukkot, second only to Pesah in strenuous preparations, focuses on where, in what and how you live\u2014it\u2019s theme is shelter. Both mandate a form of enforced poverty \u2013 eating matzah, the bread of affliction; living in a shack, the most modest of dwellings. These holidays are great social equalizers: fulfilling their two central obligations make the wealthy more like the poor, and no one, rich or poor, is excluded by the celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Biblical Shavuot is different. The celebration focuses on the first fruits and newly harvested grain, and the main celebrants are the landowners, those who have grain and fruits to bring.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As such this festival is \"about\" land, a basic element of civilization along with food and shelter. Perhaps ideally, everyone was supposed to be a landowner -- but the Torah realizes that this was never going to be the case. The holiday, then, has the dangerous potential of splitting the people between landed and landless, and rather than being a \u2018leveller\u2019 like Pesach and Sukkot, bringing rich and poor together in a shared experience, it could reinforce the socio-economic gap. The unexpected verse about leaving parts of the harvest for the poor (reinforced aggadically in the story of Ruth read on Shavuot) is a reminder of mutual obligation, a reminder that the land should be a source of justice and not division, that the holiday requires an ethic of care, and not just a celebration of wealth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Biblical land ethic, codified in ritual and ethics, merged the natural with the social by expressing an inseparable link between the land, its bounty and its continued well-being, and the need for the care and support of all the people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is also a statement about how we celebrate our holidays: gratitude for our bounteous harvests of various types is best expressed through compassion for those who have not been so blessed -- not through closed, self-satisfied convocations of the favored.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Parashat Emor<\/em> focuses on the special celebrations of the moadim<\/em> (holidays), that is, the \u201cfixed times of the Lord which you shall proclaim as sacred occasions\u201d (Lev. 23:2), such as the spring and summer festivals of Passover and Shavuot and the fall festivals of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.<\/p>\r\n

And the Sabbath, the weekly festival: \u201cOn six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred occasion. You shall do no work; it shall be a Sabbath of the Lord throughout your settlement\u201d (Lev. 23:3). What is the connection between the three appearances of this idea: here, toward the end of the story of Creation (Gen. 2:1\u20133) and again as the fourth of the Ten Commandments (Exod. 20:11)?<\/p>\r\n

Avner Moriah focuses on this verse, which he visualizes in a painting similar to the one he created for Parashat Bereshit<\/em>. This most colorful picture figures the six days of Creation, depicting the non-anthropomorphic spirit of God as a three-dimensional spiral; the tohu<\/em> as erratically arrayed amorphous yellow shapes; the firmament; the separation of the water and the land; all of the Earth\u2019s flora, fowl, fish and sea creatures, land animals, and finally the prominent images of Adam and Eve, the crown of Creation.<\/p>\r\n

The artist\u2019s decision to repeat most of the elements from the picture of Creation elucidates why the law of the Sabbath is repeated here after having appeared earlier in both Genesis and Exodus. Each time the law was reiterated the Israelites were reminded that by working six days and resting on the seventh they were imitating God and His acts in Creation.<\/p>\r\n

Moreover, the reference to Genesis underscores the primordial concept of the moadim <\/em>by recalling the story of Creation. The same word appears in the first chapter of Genesis in connection with the creation of the luminaries: \u201cGod said \u2018Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night; they shall serve as signs for the set times (moadim<\/em>) \u2013 the days and years (Gen. 1:14). The word moadim <\/em>is related to the verb \u201cto assign, to appoint, or to fix.\u201d Once the sun and the moon were created they marked day and night and the months and the seasons, thus enabling determination of the dates of the moadim<\/em>, as we read: \u201cSet times of the Lord, the moadim, <\/em>sacred occasions, which you shall celebrate each at its appointed time\u201d (Lev. 23:4).<\/p>\r\n

So like the Sabbath, the moadim <\/em>have their origin in the Creation story. God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh and so it should be with humans. God also created the sun and the moon, but then it became human responsibility to fix the times of the various moadim <\/em>so that they fall in the right season and on the right day. 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The beginning of our chapter states: \u201cThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: These are My fixed times, the fixed times of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as sacred occasions.\u201d (Leviticus 23: 1-2). One might think that the \u201cfixed times of the Lord\u201d (<\/span>mo\u2019adey ha-shem<\/span><\/em>) would be proclaimed by God for Israel. Our verse indicates otherwise when it adds: \u201cwhich <\/span>you<\/span> shall proclaim as sacred occasions\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This curious mid-verse reversal is dramatized in a highly vocal and visual midrash (Devarim Rabbah 2:14): The Ministering Angels assemble before the Holy One, blessed be He, and ask: \u201cWhen is Rosh HaShanah? When is Yom HaKipurim?\u201d And He answers them, saying: \u201cYou\u2019re asking Me?! You and I shall go together to ask the human court below [the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem]\u2026 Said Rabbi Yochanan: \u201cGod said to Israel: \u2018Before you became My people the festivals were the \u201cfixed times of the Lord\u201d (Leviticus 23:2). But from here on the \u201cfixed times of the Lord [are what] <\/span>you<\/span> [Israel] shall proclaim as sacred occasions.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Second Temple times, God let Israel\u2019s Sanhedrin determine the \u201cfixed times\u201d (<\/span>mo\u2019adim<\/span><\/em>) for the annual cycle of its Festivals, from Rosh HaShanah and on by visually sighting, confirming and then sanctifying the New Moon (<\/span>ha-molad<\/span><\/em>) at the beginning of each New Year. God and the angelic court in Heaven defer to the determination of the human court on earth. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

It stands to reason that still today we may decide how our annual Festivals might best be celebrated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cYou shall dwell in <\/span>sukkot<\/span><\/i> seven days, all citizens in Israel shall dwell in <\/span>sukkot<\/span><\/i>...(Leviticus 23:42-43)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Behold, I am ready and prepared
\r\n<\/span>To perform the <\/span>mitzvah<\/span><\/i> of <\/span>sukkah<\/span><\/i>,
\r\n<\/span>As the Creator commanded me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I will invite to my <\/span>sukkah
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Seven beggars:
\r\n<\/span>One blind, one deaf,
\r\n<\/span>One who stutters, one with a twisted neck,
\r\n<\/span>One with a hunched back,
\r\n<\/span>One with no hands,
\r\n<\/span>One with no feet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Be seated, be seated, exalted guests.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

I will invite to my <\/span>sukkah
\r\n<\/span><\/i>The king who wanders without his crown,
\r\n<\/span>The queen who sits by a sea of blood,
\r\n<\/span>The king's only son who has lost his faith,
\r\n<\/span>The queen's only daughter who writes on her head kerchief
\r\n<\/span>With tears, weeping for her golden-haired infant
\r\n<\/span>Abducted by the winds of the storm.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Be seated, be seated, holy guests.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

I will invite to my <\/span>sukkah
\r\n<\/span><\/i>The dispersed and the scattered
\r\n<\/span>Members of the royal court:
\r\n<\/span>The master of prayer, the warrior, the treasurer,
\r\n<\/span>The sage, the bard, the king's faithful friend,
\r\n<\/span>And the viceroy who spends his life searching
\r\n<\/span>For a castle of pearl on a mountain of gold.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Be seated, be seated, faithful guests.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

I will invite to my <\/span>sukkah
\r\n<\/span><\/i>The prince who thinks he is a maidservant's son,
\r\n<\/span>The man of the forest whose house stands in the air,
\r\n<\/span>The emperor's daughter and the pauper's wife,
\r\n<\/span>The merchant and his son,
\r\n<\/span>The bride and groom who learn to be beggars,
\r\n<\/span>Who will marry in a pit covered with branches and leaves.<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

Be seated in the shelter of the sacred Shadow.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

May it please you, most worthy guests,
\r\n<\/span>To dwell with us
\r\n<\/span>In our <\/span>sukkah<\/span><\/i> of stories and words
\r\n<\/span>Even when storm winds blow.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For the sake of the Holy One, blessed be He,
\r\n<\/span>Hidden and unknowable;
\r\n<\/span>For the sake of the <\/span>Shechinah<\/span><\/i>, whose glory
\r\n<\/span>Fills the world;
\r\n<\/span>In the name of all Israel, in reverence and in love,
\r\n<\/span>Let me play your tunes,
\r\n<\/span>Let me sing your songs.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":63549,"alt":"","title":"2kings7-nachman beggars","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","width":613,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars-300x196.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":196,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","medium_large-width":613,"medium_large-height":400,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","large-width":613,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","1536x1536-width":613,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","2048x2048-width":613,"2048x2048-height":400,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","post_full_size-width":613,"post_full_size-height":400,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","home_baner-width":613,"home_baner-height":400}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"Rabbi Nachman's Sukkah","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"May it please you, most worthy guests, to dwell with us, in our sukkah of stories and words","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":63549,"alt":"","title":"2kings7-nachman beggars","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","width":613,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars-300x196.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":196,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","medium_large-width":613,"medium_large-height":400,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","large-width":613,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","1536x1536-width":613,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","2048x2048-width":613,"2048x2048-height":400,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","post_full_size-width":613,"post_full_size-height":400,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings7-nachman-beggars.jpg","home_baner-width":613,"home_baner-height":400}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"23","chapter_main_number":"113","date":"20260203","wall_id":"113"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"}]},{"order":15,"id":"45850","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Leviticus 23 ","post_title":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Leviticus 23","slug":"a-lesson-on-the-daily-chapter-leviticus-23","old_id":"45850","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":40936,"post_title":"David Silber","slug":"david-silber-2","old_id":"40936","first_name":"David ","last_name":"Silber ","description":"Rabbi David Silber is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. 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\u201cTake Time to Make Time\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Sari Laufer: How should Jewish holidays interact with our neatly ordered lives?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cBeing Frum and Being Good: Ethics in the Thought of HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein ZT\"L\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Gabi Weinberg: What is the relationship between observance and correct behavior? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. But why<\/em>? The holiday calendar that appears in this chapter doesn\u2019t really answer the question as to the reasons for the holidays, neither historical nor agricultural. The addendum at the end of the chapter is unusual, and emphasizes even more what is missing in the rest of the chapter. There we do find explanations for the holiday of Sukkot, both \u201cwhen you have gathered in the yield of your land, you shall observe the festival,\u201d (39) and also \u201cthat future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt\u201d (43).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Which Shabbat exactly?<\/em> The priest \u201cshall elevate the sheaf before the LORD for acceptance in your behalf; the priest shall elevate it on the day after the sabbath\u201d (verse 11). In this text, this ceremony doesn\u2019t have a fixed time in the calendar. The rather obscure time \u201cthe day after the sabbath\u201d (which also determines the bread and first fruits ceremonies fifty days hence) is the source of a huge interpretive and legal dispute between the Pharisees and the Boethusians, and between rabbinic Judaism and the Karaites. Does \u201cthe day after the sabbath\u201d refer to the day after the first holiday (<\/span>shabbaton<\/span><\/em>) of Pesach (that is always on the 15th day of Nisan), as the Pharisees and the rabbis claim? Or the day after the <\/span>sabbath<\/span><\/em>, i.e., the seventh day of the week, after the first holiday of Pesach (according to the Karaites) or after the end of Pesach, as the Boethusians held?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The opening sacrifice.<\/em> The <\/span>omer<\/span><\/em> ritual in the Temple begins the season of fresh baked goods from the new grain: \u201cUntil that very day, until you have brought the offering of your God, you shall eat no bread or parched grain or fresh ears\u201d (verse 14).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. If you\u2019re already mentioning the harvest<\/em>\u2026 And the seasonal sacrifices, then don\u2019t forget the laws of gifts to the poor that are also part and parcel of the season: \u201cAnd when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I the LORD am your God\u201d (verse 22). 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