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Moadim Lesimcha
Explorations into the Jewish Holidays
It shouldn"t take more than a day to clean the whole house, including the kitchen. Anything more than that is a stringency. If we are not capable of dealing with the extra workload we decide to take on, we deplete our energy and take out our exhaustion on our families. Not only is there increased tension between husband and wife, but we show our children a very negative example by shouting at them things like: I told you not to go into this room anymore. Why did you go in?! Eat on the porch! Eat standing up! Don"t touch! The whole kitchen looks like it was overturned by vandals - the husband and children are trembling in fear in some corner and eating while the mother glares at them like a drill sergeant. Is this preparation for Pesach?! Is this educating children?! No, it is a reign of terror with the mother as Pharaoh presiding.
In Moadim LeSimcha, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner fuses spiritual, scholarly and practical p....
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