The laws and customs of the Sukkos holiday, according to Chabad Minhagim. Plus: Rabbi Nachman Wilhelm of Online Smicha on women building and eating in a Sukkah, and making an Eruv Tavshilin. Reminder: Make an Eruv Tavshilin. Full Story, Video
The laws and customs of the Sukkos holiday, according to Chabad Minhagim. Plus: Rabbi Nachman Wilhelm of Online Smicha on women building and eating in a Sukkah, and making an Eruv Tavshilin. Reminder: Make an Eruv Tavshilin. Full Story, Video
Compiled by Rabbi Shmuel Lesches of Melbourne – Click here
First days of Sukkos, compiled by Rabbi Levi Garelik
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Day by day halachic guide for Sukkos by Crown Heights Badatz Rabbi Yaacov Schwei and Rabbi Yosef Braun.
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That was my point. #3 said Pesach is observed more than Sukkos because Pesach is not gender-specific. My point is that Shavuos is also not gender-specific and is probably even less observed than Sukkos.
Shavuoth though, when you think if it, despite being obligatory for both Jewish men and women to observe, has no specific mitzvot min haTorah attached to it. Accepted that there are strong customs aligned to this yomtov, but they do not appear to me to be gender specific.
What about Shavuos? There is no difference in men’s vs women’s obligation there and it is probably the least observed holiday among non-observant Jews.
Is it any wonder then, that because women are in the main exempt from building, residing, eating etc in the succah, that this festival is much less likely to be even minimally observed observed by most secular jews. Compare this festival with Pesach, however, where most Jews, even those who are otherwise wholly unobservant, ie secular, still want to observe something of Pesach, even if it us just buying and eating a box of matzat, cleaning, etc. Pesach is a festival in which women are obliged to observe its mitzvot. This just goes to show that WITHOUT women being obliged… Read more »
What about an unmarried woman whose father has passed away and who has no brothers, who owns her own home, and wants to fulfill the mitzvah of sukkah as a stringency. So for many years she has always had a sukkah on her property — usually she paid someone to put it up although a couple of times she built it herself, but either way she has always placed the sechach herself. After three consecutive years of building or causing her sukkah to be built, has she not established a chazakah obligating her to continue this practice?
so informative and easy to understand. thanks and a Gut Mo’ed