Entering Sukkot with Rav Shlomo Katz
Sep 22, 2026 · 44 min · 11 segments
Rav Shlomo Katz explores Rav Kook's visionary essay from Moadei HaRe'iyah on how a fragile, temporary hut with thin walls serves as a Migdal Oz (tower of strength). Rav Shlomo contrasts modern…
Shlomo KatzHost
So what does he say here? An sheknesses agdola, shebitlu yitzra davod azaram yisraam, What did they really do by establishing Sanhedrin? What did the people of the General Great Assembly, he says here, what they really did was they removed when a person had a passion to worship an idol, so they were able somehow to institute through what they instituted, to remove from the Dam Yisrael this, you know, like, for us, obviously, it's other stuff today's day and age.
Last week we had a shiur in Yishlam, we spoke, speaking about how every single door deals with their own Avodah Zarah.
Like today, besides one person in my life, I don't know anybody that kind of gets nuts when he walks past an idol, a statue.
I do have one friend that many of you know because He spent time in ashrams and he really, before he did tshuva, and he's very sensitive to it.
Unless you're just in awe when you're by the United Center in Chicago and you see Michael's statue or the Rocky statue.
Not the same class.
But here it's saying, what did they do? Now how did they do this and what happened exactly? They established sukkahs, certain type of sukkahs, that weren't done since the time of Yeshua B'nun.
Now, how many years is between the times of Yeshua B'nun and Ansheh Knesset HaGadolah? Approximately.
Sorry? Because this is before the Gomer.
So what does he say here? An sheknesses agdola, shebitlu yitzra davod azaram yisraam, What did they really do by establishing Sanhedrin? What did the people of the General Great Assembly, he says here, what they really did was they removed when a person had a passion to worship an idol, so they were able somehow to institute through what they instituted, to remove from the Dam Yisrael this, you know, like, for us, obviously, it's other stuff today's day and age.
Last week we had a shiur in Yishlam, we spoke, speaking about how every single door deals with their own Avodah Zarah.
Like today, besides one person in my life, I don't know anybody that kind of gets nuts when he walks past an idol, a statue.
I do have one friend that many of you know because He spent time in ashrams and he really, before he did tshuva, and he's very sensitive to it.
Unless you're just in awe when you're by the United Center in Chicago and you see Michael's statue or the Rocky statue.
Not the same class.
But here it's saying, what did they do? Now how did they do this and what happened exactly? They established sukkahs, certain type of sukkahs, that weren't done since the time of Yeshua B'nun.
Now, how many years is between the times of Yeshua B'nun and Ansheh Knesset HaGadolah? Approximately.
Sorry? Because this is before the Gomer.
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