Introduction to the Torah Holidays (Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb) (Jewish Philosophy)

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i want to introduce the general category of holidays certain features that the holidays have in common in particular that set them aside from shabbos in spite of the various things that divide the holidays among themselves one key is the liturgy the prayers that go together the liturgy the prayers that go together with the holidays versus the prayers that go together with shabbos on holy days the whole the silent prayer is seven blessings first three the last three are identical to the ones we make for the weekdays the middle expresses the idea of the holiday and the middle section the middle blessing has a closing and shabbos the closing is blessed who sanctifies the sabbath on holidays the closing is israel blessed hashem who sanctifies the jewish people and the holidays so the obvious difference is that the jewish people are mentioned in the closing of the blessings on the holidays but not in shabbos and then one more fact to take into and then one more fact to take into account suppose that the holiday comes out on shabbos so then you end up with a combined middle blessing to reflect the character of both shabbos and the holiday the closing is makadesh hashabas reese royal masmani thank you very much thank sanctifies the sabbath and the jewish people and the holidays if you're going to put them together right now obviously put them together that way to reverse the order you put you swell before both shabbos and the holidays so there are two very fundamental ideas here one is where does the source what is the source of the sanctity of shabbos versus the

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