Corfu Ethrogim
For several centuries Corfu was one of the chief suppliers of Ethrogim to Jews all over the world. The use of Corfu Ethrogim by Jews is already mentioned by Giovanni […]
The Nadvorner Rebbe Keeps His Sukkah
The first day of Sukkos is the Yahrzeit of the Nadvorna Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Leifer ZT”L who passed away in 1894 (5655). Thousands of Jews from Galicia, Hungary, Poland and […]
The Sukkos Festival Celebration That Sparked a Jewish Civil War
More than two thousand years ago, our ancestors celebrated a Sukkos in Jerusalem in a most heartbreaking and painful manner. The four species which they were supposed to hold together […]
The Role of the Esrog in Childbirth
Rectifying the Sin of the Tree of Knowledge. Back in the 18th century, a fascinating story circulated among Jews that the Queen of Prussia, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of King […]
The Sukkah that Collapsed
An Episode in Metz, France Two Hundred Years Ago During the period of the Tosafists, Metz boasted a significant Jewish community. Rabbi Eliezer ben Shemuel, a disciple of Rabbenu Tam […]
The Woman Who Corrected A Sukkos Piyut
Rebbetzin Chava Bacharach was an extraordinary woman. A granddaughter of the Maharal of Prague, a daughter of Rabbi Yitzchak Kohen, the famous son-in-law of the Maharal, and the wife of […]
Two Festival Customs
The Mishna (Yoma 5:1) tells us that when the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur, “He came out by the way he entered.” Just as he […]
Jews in Old Poland
Book review of “Jews in Old Poland” By Isaac Lewin The study of the history of the Jews of Poland is Isaac Lewin’s specialty. Years before the outbreak of World […]