HALACHA OF THE WEEK: Mosquito Netting for a Sukkah While there are opinions which forbid the use of netting over the schach of a sukkah (e.g. Aruch laNer), Rabbi Moshe Feinstein did permit netting, under the following conditions: 1. While netting can be place either above or below the schach, it is better to put it OVER the schach. This is done so that the netting will not serve as a "support" for the schach ("davar ha'ma'amid). 2. The netting should be open enough that the openings should be more than the threads which "criss-cross" the netting. This is necessary so that more sunlight can penetrate the netting than the shade caused by the netting ("chamta meruba mi'tzilta") The netting does not have to produced specifically for Sukkot and may be purchased at any store.
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DVAR TORAH Our Sages teach that the happiest days on the Jewish calendar are the Fifteenth of the month of Av and Yom Kippur.
But how is Yom Kippur a happy day? To the contrary, Yom Kippur would seem to be a somber day, even a dreadful day!
The answer may be found in a teaching of Rav Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of modern Israel. Over the course of Yom Kippur, we recite the confession of “Ashamnu” ten times, each time singing the words to an almost joyous tune. Why is a tune appropriate?
The answer he suggested is that both a confession, i.e., an acceptance of responsibility, and a self-rebuke which emanates from deep within one’s soul and says, “I do not want this sin.” Thus, “Ashamnu” is uplifting, even joyous. Its purpose is not so that one will wallow in sin, but, to the contrary, to liberate oneself from them.
As long as one has not confessed, the halachic principle of “shetikah k’hodaah” [lit. “silence is acquiescence”] is operative, and one is considered as if accepting of one’s sins. But once we recite the “Ashamnu” it is as if we stand before G-d and reject the past and look forward to a better future.
Certainly, confession has the painful aspect of recognizing our shortcomings and errors. But it also is joyous, for it expresses one’s inner purity and liberates one from the heavy burden of sin [Orot Ha’Teshuvah Im Be’ur by Rabbi Reuven Sasson p. 367].
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MAZAL TOV * to Moshe and Shoshi Kahn on the birth of a great-grandson. * to Sharyl Ross on the engagement of her son Benji to Aviva Salkin * Yoel and Yehudit Goldberg on the birth of a granddaughter. Proud parents are Aniel and Shua Weiss. Mazal to tov to great-grandparents Norman and Malkie Goldberg. * Dr. Jordan and Leah Hupert on the engagement of their daughter Anna to Yisrael Lunzer. * Maureen and Harold Katz on the birth of Maureen’s grandson Asaf Kalman Shachar to Alona Stewart and Lenny Ash. * Dr. Yudel and Louise Mayefsky on the engagement of their son, Dr. Yitzy Mayefsky to Talia Molotsky.
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TALMUD CLASS – Shabbat 45 minutes before mincha
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BIRTHDAYS (cont'd) Max and Rivkah Leah Friedman (10/14) Michael and Karen Dukes (10/18) Allan and Rosanne Arnet (10/21)
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