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Holiday Divrei Torah

Chanukah (Hanukkah)
1a) Translating My Brother-in-law's Chapter on "The Law of Beautifying [the Mitzva] of Ner Chanukah" Part      1
1b) Translating My Brother-in-law's Chapter on "The Law of Beautifying [the Mitzva] of Ner Chanukah" Part 2
1c) Translating My Brother-in-law's Chapter on "The Law of Beautifying [the Mitzva] of Ner Chanukah" Part 3
2) Why is Chanuka (Hanukkah) Eight Days Long?

Elul (Month Before High Holidays)
1) Using Elul To Prepare Ourselves For Spirituality

Pesach (Passover)
1) Connecting Purim to Pesach
2) The Ten Plagues, A Lesson In Repentance

Purim
1) Purim- The Sin of Assimilation
2) Connecting Purim to Pesach
3) Rambam- What Does Megilas Esther Teach Us?
4) Meiri on Purim- Why We Shouldn't Get Drunk
5) Purim is Chazal Telling Us the Future of Judaism

Rosh Hashana
1) Praying To G-D and Shana Tova To All
2) Rosh Hashana- What Is the Goal

Shavuous (Shavuot)
1) Why Shavuous is the Most Important Holiday
2) First Tablets VS the Second Tablets

Yom Haatzmaut
1) Hallel On Yom Haatzmaut (Israel Independence Day)

Yom Kippur
1)The Power of Yom Kippur

Tisha Bi'av
1) Past Suffering Versus Current Suffering And Rabbinic Leadership
2) Thoughts On Tisha Bi'av 
3) What Makes Tisha Bi'av A Unique Fast Day

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