How can Jews be commanded to rejoice on Simchat Torah, when, in 2023, it fell on October 7, 2023, the day Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Jews and kidnapped 251 others?
So many Jews and Gentiles the world over know of friends or loved ones who were either injured, killed or kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on that horrible day.
In this moving and deeply personal lecture, “Simchat and Sukkot Shalom”, Rabbi Idan Rakovsky explores the Torah’s commandment, “And you shall rejoice in your festival” (Deut. 16:13-15), and how it collides with the unbearable pain, two years after that tragic day on Oct 7.
Rabbi Rakovsky goes through a number of relevant Jewish sources that deal with the imperative of being joyous and happy on the Holiday of Sukkot (Feat of Tabernacles).
Please click this link for his Lecture Notes: https://jewsforjudaism.ca/be-happy-on-simchat-torah/
What makes this lecture most pertinent is that Rabbi Rakovsky’s own brother-in-law, Avidan Turgeman z”l, was murdered that Simchat Torah morning at the “Nova” music festival in Kibbutz Re’im by Hamas terrorists.
This video lecture is dedicated in memory of Avidan Turgeman z”l. To find out more about Avidan and what happened that tragic day in Israel, please click this link: https://october7memorial.com/memoriam/avidan-turgeman
Rabbi Idan Rakovsky is the Rabbi and Co-Director of the JLIC Community in Beer Sheva, Israel and Former Shaliach and Rabbinical Assistant at Shaarei Tefillah Congregation, Toronto, CANADA.
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