The Hochberg Middle School Student Council present Sugar Rush Bash on Tuesday November 26, from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm in the Brickman Auditorium. Tickets are $18 Click for additional details. Thank you to the Posnack School PTO for generously sponsoring this event.
Don’t miss our fall Thespian Showcase featuring the performances of our award winning Posnack School Thespian troupe on Tuesday, November 12 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Rousso Black Box Theatre. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Click for ticket purchases and more information.
As we begin the annual cycle of reading the Torah, it is most important to understand that the written Torah, also know as the Five Books of Moshe or Chumash, actually came after the Oral Law (Torah She-Ba’al Peh). In fact, the Torah was not completed (according to Rashi) or even started (according to Maimonides) before the last month of Moshe’s life forty years after the Revelation at Mt Sinai. The great 19th century German rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch used the following analogy: the Torah is to the Oral Law as notes are to attending a full lecture.
Hochberg Lower Scool welcomes author and illustrator Andrew Toffoli on Friday, October 25. Mr. Toffoli will be debuting his new book. Click for details and ordering information.
The Hebrew month of Tishrei is chock full of holidays, Yomim Tovim, each with their own unique and specifically mandated mitzvot. The goal of these special mitzvoth is to ingrain in us ideas that are necessary for human perfection. But the Torah has no unique mitzvah for us to perform on Shemini Atzeret,which we will celebrate on Monday. Why?
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