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Succos is the zeman simchaseinu, the Days of Joy. The contrast seems abrupt and jarring — why the sudden shift in mood?

I feel it’s time we graduated from bochurim trips to their grown-up version: shul expeditions

The Chofetz Chaim’s deep emunah in the imminent geulah was so real to him that despite all the difficulties involved and all the objections, he felt that he had no choice but to make his way to Eretz Yisrael even at such an advanced age

Put differently, true mesirus nefesh is not self-reduction; it is self-expansion, an opportunity to push oneself beyond the limits one assumes for oneself.

The problem with acting ethically is that you have to do it in real time

Mechilah can make a tzibbur feel whole