Feasting Your Way to Holiness

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ShmuelThis year the Hebrew month of Tishrei coincides with most of the month of September. The festivals of Rosh HaShanah (New Year), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), Sukkoth (Tabernacles) and its intermediate days, and Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret all fall within a few weeks!

Dining in the Sukkah

Getting Ready to Dine in the Sukkah

That means, in addition to all the praying we will be doing a LOT of eating at the festival and Shabbat meals.

Isn’t there an inherent contradiction between the spirituality of the Holy Days and the physical pleasures of the feasts?

Here’s an audio interview of me explaining how not only is there no contradiction, but the festive meals and the partaking in the physical bounty are an essential tool to achieving true transcendence when done in the proper way.

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Inventor, Computer Scientist, Serial Entrepreneur, Best-Selling Novelist and Rabbi all rolled into one. Rabbi Veffer’s breadth of experience in and his clear articulate delivery make complex ideas seem simple. He brings the world, and world events into focus through the lens of Torah. He has spoken around the world for the past 20 years, from Cambridge University, to the Old City of Jerusalem. He has combined his mathematical and scientific background with his Torah knowledge to deliver seminars throughout North America. He has been interviewed by National Public Radio and has been featured in the New York Times, the National Post and Mishpacha Magazine. Shmuel Veffer is the author, under his pseudonym Charles Samuel, of the best selling novel, "The Jerusalem Conspiracy" and "Missiles, Masks and Miracles," the incredible true story of the first Gulf War.

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