A Story of Arrival on Shmini Atzeret
May we all be able to look upon our lives and say, “Yes, Blessed are You, God, because my whole life has led me here.”
May we all be able to look upon our lives and say, “Yes, Blessed are You, God, because my whole life has led me here.”
When I began to study Torah seriously as a college student, I was introduced to its spiritual depths. I found that the meanings of the holidays went beyond the agricultural and historical sources, and often had complex spiritual teachings woven in. I remember that, back in those days, I could find little spiritual or poetic meanings of Shemini Atzeret. It was blank, or more accurately, a cipher.