Torah: Tishrei & Bereishit

Tishrei is the month that carries the whole year. It moves from the shofar of Rosh Hashanah, through the white of Yom Kippur, into the sukkah, and on to the dancing of Simchat Torah. Then, without a pause, the scroll rolls back to its first word and we begin again with Bereishit. These pieces walk that road, from the days of judgment to the days of dwelling, and on into the weekly parsha.

Rosh Hashanah and the Days of Return

Remembrance, the hidden face, and the song that witnesses.

• Zichron Teruah: When Ahavah and Yirah Share One Day (LinkedIn)
• The Hidden Face and the Set Name (LinkedIn)
• The Hidden Face and the Witnessed Song (LinkedIn)

Sukkot

The temporary house, the four kinds, the water poured on the altar, and the guests who come to the sukkah.

• The Etrog Is Not Tied
• Grown, Cut, and Not a Tool
• Every Guest Was Once a Stranger
• Four Kinds, One Bundle
• Seven Days and the Seventh Day
• Seventy Bullocks, Seventy Nations
• A Warning Without a Date
• The Hut and the Tool That Turned Back
• Yechida Under Schach
• The King Who Walked the Field Now Dwells Between the Shoulders
• The King Who Was in the Field Now Dwells in the Hut
• The Viceroy Under Schach

Chol HaMoed and Hoshana Rabbah

Ordinary days made holy, the willows beaten on the last open gate, and water and wine.

• The Holy Weekday
• The Distressed Are Exempt
• Emuna and Ashira, Water and Wine
• When the Holiness Lifts
• Hoshana Rabbah 5787: The Last Open Gate
• Hoshanot, Water and Joy: LinkedIn · X

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

The one extra day the King asks us to stay, and the dancing with a scroll we cannot read while we dance.

• Dancing with a Closed Torah
• Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah — For the Home: LinkedIn · X

Bereishit and the weekly parsha

From Shabbat Bereishit on, a weekly parsha piece for the home: learned, warm, and short enough to share at the table. New pieces will appear here each week.

• Bereishit (Shabbat 10 October) [LINK PENDING]

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