Category: Festivals

Rabbi's Corner – December 2023, Darkness and Light

11/26/2023

Most every spiritual system has a festival time of year dedicated to shining light in the darkness. As the Northern day reaches its lowest ebb, Jews around the world prepare to celebrate Hanukkah – the Festival of Lights. Hanukkah's nightly ritual of kindling candles has become one of Judaism's most cherished rituals.

Especially this year, it's about much more than candles.

Joy Beyond the Walls: Sukkot for Moderns

9/26/2023

By Rabbi David Evan Markus
Sukkot 5784 (2023)

We made it through the High Holy Days of 5784. We rang in the Jewish new year. We honored its double-celebration confluence with Shabbat. We stood together forgiven on Kol Nidre night. We plunged and soared on Yom Kippur, whose last shofar blast re-entered us into life after the High Holy Days.

Now we get to celebrate together. The festival of Sukkot, our "Season of Joy," begins the evening of September 29 – yet again coinciding with Shabbat. So we're off the Torah cycle for two more weeks while we revel in Sukkot and hang out in a sukkah.

You don't have a sukkah? It's still Sukkot, and there are lots of ways to celebrate.

Rabbi's Corner – December 2023, Darkness and Light

Joy Beyond the Walls: Sukkot for Moderns

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