Entering Sukkot with Rav Shlomo Katz
Sep 22, 2026 · 49 min · 11 segments
Rav Shlomo Katz explores why the Shabbat between Yom Kippur and Sukkot is considered by Hasidic masters to be one of the most elevated yet delicate days of the year. With the help of Reb Tzadok, The…
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We're gonna take a break from, from the sefer we've been doing because this Shabbos is a very, like I said, I think the, the, the best word I could find would be the word delicate.

But, you know, when you're in a mikvah, when is the din of taharah chal on you? Like, when are you considered tahor? When you come out.

I'm not trying to make it too Lamdish, but the chalos, meaning the, I don't know what's the right word of the...

It's when you come out of the water that the din, the, the shame, tahor, is applicable to you.

So what, you know, Yom Kippur is a mikvah, and the, the taharah is when you come out of the water.

And we were learning a piece to that, that no one is, no one is supposed to live in, in water.

Even a Yid, as much as we'd say, "Oh, I would love to live Yom Kippur all year long," you wouldn't after two or three days.

But there is something in there that ma- that ha- we have this, this, k- this, like, beautiful memory of the last, especially the Chevre.

We're gonna take a break from, from the sefer we've been doing because this Shabbos is a very, like I said, I think the, the, the best word I could find would be the word delicate.

But, you know, when you're in a mikvah, when is the din of taharah chal on you? Like, when are you considered tahor? When you come out.

I'm not trying to make it too Lamdish, but the chalos, meaning the, I don't know what's the right word of the...

It's when you come out of the water that the din, the, the shame, tahor, is applicable to you.

So what, you know, Yom Kippur is a mikvah, and the, the taharah is when you come out of the water.

And we were learning a piece to that, that no one is, no one is supposed to live in, in water.

Even a Yid, as much as we'd say, "Oh, I would love to live Yom Kippur all year long," you wouldn't after two or three days.

But there is something in there that ma- that ha- we have this, this, k- this, like, beautiful memory of the last, especially the Chevre.
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