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Chaim Bucsko

Chaim Bucsko

Rabbi at TORCH (Torah Outreach Resource Center of Houston) and host of "The Average Rabbi" podcast.

Sep 28, 2026

27:18
As they swill their wine...
27:22
It's the narration.
27:24
The...
27:26
The idea that I'm going to share isn't only about Sukkot.
27:29
It's really also about, mainly about the upcoming holiday, which is Shemini Atzeret.
27:36
And in the diaspora out here, we split it up into two days.
27:40
We have Shemini Atzeret and the second day we call Simchat Torah.
31:40
I'm sorry.
22:47
makes sense what I'm saying.
22:48
So how is this a hint to the second day Yom Tov that happens in the Diaspora? So the Chassam Sofer says, amazing.
22:55
He says, first of all, Moshe did this.
22:59
What was his reasoning? he was concerned that there might have been an expulsion of a seminal omission from a woman from previously when she had been with her husband.
23:09
And Hashem wasn't concerned about that, but Moshe was.
23:13
And the reason Hashem wasn't concerned about it is because we have a principle that, let's say, for example, someone who does have a seminal mission, it does render a person impure to a certain degree, not a tremendous degree, but to a certain degree.
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The law is that he is not so impure that he can't learn Torah or say blessings or pray.
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