Sukkot סוכות
1The Festival of Sukkotא - חג הסוכות
- 1.The Names of the Festival and their Underpinnings
- 2.The Festival of Gathering
- 3.The Four Species
- 4.Commemoration of the Booths in the Wilderness and of the Clouds of Glory
- 5.The Reason for the Mitzva of Sukka in Practice
- 6.A Temporary Dwelling
- 7.The Sukka as "Surrounding Light"
- 8.The Joy of Sukkot; Unity and Peace
- 9.The Book of Kohelet
- 10.Simhat Beit HaSho'eva; The Water Drawing Ceremony
- 11.Celebrations in the Temple
- 12.The Simhat Beit HaSho'eva Today
- 13.Israel and the Nations of the World
- 14.The Custom of Ushpizin
2The Laws of the Sukkaב - הלכות סוכה
- 1.The Sukka; A Temporary Dwelling
- 2.Kosher Skhakh
- 3.More Shade than Sun
- 4.The Rabbinic Decree against Rooflike Materials; Boards and Mats
- 5.Supporting Skhakh with Materials that Cannot be Used for Skhakh
- 6.The Walls of the Sukka
- 7.The Height of the Walls and the Laws of "Lavud"
- 8.Sukkot with Fabric Walls
- 9.The Sukkah must be Open to the Sky
- 10.One must Sit in the Shade of the Skhakh (the Status of Decorations)
- 11.Sitting under Unfit Skhakh or Open Space
- 12.The Intention Required when Building a Sukkah
- 13.A Borrowed or Stolen Sukkah and "Ta'aseh velo min haAsui"
- 14.How Much must one Invest in Building the Sukka?
- 15.A Beautiful Sukka
- 16.The Sanctity of the Sukka and its Decorations
- 17.A Pergola
3Sitting in the Sukkaג - ישיבה בסוכה
- 1.The Principles of the Mitzva
- 2.Dwelling in a Respectable Way
- 3.The Obligation to Eat on the First Night
- 4.Eating in the Sukka
- 5.The Berakha of "Leishev baSukka"
- 6.Laws of the Berakha
- 7.Sleeping in the Sukka and Dozing Off
- 8.Exemptions for Illness or because the Sukka is Intolerable
- 9.More on Someone for whom the Sukka is Intolerable ("Mitzta'er")
- 10.When Someone is Considered "Mitzta'er" and Exempt from Sleeping in the Sukka
- 11.Married Men
- 12.A Minor, a Groom, and a Mourner
- 13.Those Engaged in a Mitzva and Travelers
- 14.Trips
4The Four Speciesד - ארבעת המינים
- 1.The Mitzva of the Four Species
- 2.The Four Species Express the Unity of Israel
- 3.Other Allusions of the Four Species
- 4.The Principles of Disqualifications
- 5.The Lulav (Palm Frond)
- 6.The Uppermost Leaf Split
- 7.Laws and Minimum Length of the Lulav, and a Lulav from a Canary Island Date Palm
- 8.The Hadas (Myrtle Branch)
- 9.The Arava (Willow Branch)
- 10.A Hybrid Etrog and the Law of the Pitam
- 11.Blotches and Missing Pieces
- 12.Laws of the Etrog
- 13.Borrowed and Stolen
- 14.Beautifying the Mitzva
5Shaking the Lulavה - נטילת לולב
- 1.The Time of the Mitzva
- 2.Tying the Species Together
- 3.The Procedure for Taking the Lulav and Making the Berakha
- 4.The Order of the Shaking
- 5.Where one Shakes
- 6.Lulav for Women and Minors
- 7.Preserving the Four Species
- 8.The "Muktzeh" Status of the Four Species
- 9.The Custom of Circumambulation ("Hakafot") in the Temple
- 10.The Custom of Hakafot Nowadays
6Hoshana Rabbaו - הושענא רבה
- 1.Hoshana Rabba
- 2.The Arava Custom in Temple Times and Nowadays
- 3.Laws of Beating the Arava
- 4.The Four Species and the Aravot after the Festival
- 5.Leaving the Sukka