Laws of Yom Kippur, Shulchan Aruch of the Alter Rebbe chapter 606

What triggered Abraham's final test?

Why does a "chasid" say Hineni ("Here I am")?

Why is Jerusalem called Mount Moriah?

All this and more in The Binding of Isaac, part I

Text: Genesis Chapter 22 with Rashi: Vayera-Torah-Reading Akeidah

Can you desecrate the holiday to retrieve a shofar at the top of a tree? Can you swim across a river for it? Can you clean a shofar on the holiday and what cleanser can never be used to clean a shofar?

Bonus: A sermon tip to be derived from the latter law.

Text source: Laws of Rosh Hashanah, Shulchan Aruch of the Alter Rebbe #586

Why a "Trump" shofar would not be kosher and why in Berkeley they would agree you should take off your hearing aids to hear the shofar.


Text source: Laws of Rosh Hashanah, Shulchan Aruch of the Alter Rebbe #586 https://www.chabadnp.com/library/article_cdo/aid/3376117

Laws of Rosh Hashanah Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch part II

Text source: Laws of Rosh Hashanah, Shulchan Aruch of the Alter Rebbe #584

The first two chapters of the Alter Rebbe's Laws of Rosh Hashanah (Shulchan Aruch HaRav).

Why does G-d require that we have the testimony of witnesses who have seen the new moon in order to establish Rosh Chodesh -- shouldn't the astronomical calculations suffice?

Bonus: chasidic aphorisim from one of the hidden tzadikim sheds new light on the Kohen's blessing before the priestly blessings.