Entering Sukkot with Rav Shlomo Katz
Sep 22, 2026 · 28 min · 8 segments
Rav Shlomo Katz explores the classic debate regarding why we celebrate Sukkot in the autumn. Citing the Vilna Gaon (the Gra) and passages in Nehemiah, Rav Shlomo explains how the Clouds of Glory…
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So, as we've been looking at Rebbe Asher Royce's Torahs from Yom Ha'im Norayim, which is wonderful stuff, today it's going to be good because we're going to get through some kind of Halakhic Indian here.
And it's pretty short, but I think it'll be a very good way for us to understand the Kesher between where we came from and where we're going.
As you all know, these days, are very mysterious days, because it's almost like they don't really count.
It's like these days are kind of like, it's very weird, because when this year we're not going to have the Mitzvah, we'll be taking the Dalet Midim on the first day, because the first day is Shabbos, but then what do Chazal Darshan, that they tally the year, The count of, like, when you're going to go up to Yom Kippur next year, and they're going to look at all your mitzvahs and look at all your chalila, not so good things.
So what are these days? That's why I don't want to say these, I don't want to say it, because...
Huh? Yeah, but what is it? Like, what happens? It's why I said right now in Shul, you could either give your children their whole Yiddishkeit by saying how excited they are by these days, or you could mamish ruin the whole thing if they see how anxious and in limbo it is.
That's basically the kli for the or, the ki before it comes, before the vav, before it comes down into this world.
If we go on that route, we won't, we won't, I have to, I told you I have to end early even.
But what Rabbi Asher Weiss does is a beautiful way of connecting these two Zmanim for us to explain to us what Sukkot is.
If you want to tell me that, you know, these days, to have complete tshuva, it's tshuva me'ahava and tshuva me'ahava, I can understand it very clearly.
And then Sukkot is the tshuva me'ahava, kind of what Rabbi Cook said to us yesterday morning, after davening, regarding this zman that we could do all these mitzvahs, and wrap it up in a tshuvah out of simcha, out of ahava.
So, as we've been looking at Rebbe Asher Royce's Torahs from Yom Ha'im Norayim, which is wonderful stuff, today it's going to be good because we're going to get through some kind of Halakhic Indian here.
And it's pretty short, but I think it'll be a very good way for us to understand the Kesher between where we came from and where we're going.
As you all know, these days, are very mysterious days, because it's almost like they don't really count.
It's like these days are kind of like, it's very weird, because when this year we're not going to have the Mitzvah, we'll be taking the Dalet Midim on the first day, because the first day is Shabbos, but then what do Chazal Darshan, that they tally the year, The count of, like, when you're going to go up to Yom Kippur next year, and they're going to look at all your mitzvahs and look at all your chalila, not so good things.
So what are these days? That's why I don't want to say these, I don't want to say it, because...
Huh? Yeah, but what is it? Like, what happens? It's why I said right now in Shul, you could either give your children their whole Yiddishkeit by saying how excited they are by these days, or you could mamish ruin the whole thing if they see how anxious and in limbo it is.
That's basically the kli for the or, the ki before it comes, before the vav, before it comes down into this world.
If we go on that route, we won't, we won't, I have to, I told you I have to end early even.
But what Rabbi Asher Weiss does is a beautiful way of connecting these two Zmanim for us to explain to us what Sukkot is.
If you want to tell me that, you know, these days, to have complete tshuva, it's tshuva me'ahava and tshuva me'ahava, I can understand it very clearly.
And then Sukkot is the tshuva me'ahava, kind of what Rabbi Cook said to us yesterday morning, after davening, regarding this zman that we could do all these mitzvahs, and wrap it up in a tshuvah out of simcha, out of ahava.
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