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This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom. The excerpt also includes rabbinic legends on each of the guests.
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom. The excerpt also includes rabbinic legends on each of the guests.
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
This ready-to-use text, which includes the Hoshanot for Hol Hamoed, Shabbat, and Hoshanah Rabbah, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
By Bradley Shavit Artson, Ziegler School
This CJ Journal article originally appeared in Vol. 48, No. 4, Summer, 1996, pp. 26–34. The introduction follows below:
One of Judaism's oddest rituals is that of beating the aravot (willow fronds) during the services for Hoshana Rabbah, the final Hol ha-Mo’ed day of Sukkot.