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mimivan

Fri, Oct 02 2009, 4:06 am

Here is an English Translation of Koheles
http://www.chabad.org/library/.....16462 Web Page Name

And a nice article on the reason we read it on Sukkot from Aish.com

http://www.aish.com/h/su/tai/48961266.html Web Page Name

And The Byrds singing verses from Koheles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....lated

chocolate moose

Sun, Oct 04 2009, 7:52 pm

We read Koheles? When ?

mimivan

Sun, Oct 04 2009, 9:57 pm

not officially in shul (I think? I don't go to shul) but trust me, I'm not making it up...the Aish article backs me up.. LOL

chocolate moose

Sun, Oct 04 2009, 10:00 pm

Listen, they read Ruthie on Shavous, too, right? Which we don't. I don't doubt you. I just wonder, when ?

RachelEve14

Mon, Oct 05 2009, 2:44 am

Thanks for sharing those articles (and the clip!)

mimivan

Mon, Oct 05 2009, 3:00 am

chocolate moose wrote:

Listen, they read Ruthie on Shavous, too, right? Which we don't. I don't doubt you. I just wonder, when ?

so maybe "we" don't (I.e. Chabad) but maybe everyone else does...still, thought it was a nice article...and I happen to like Koheles...(sorry if the "we" was confusing...but no koach to edit.)

chocolate moose

Mon, Oct 05 2009, 10:41 am

okay

Chocoholic

Mon, Oct 05 2009, 10:53 am

The hair of those guys....

chocolate moose

Mon, Oct 05 2009, 11:45 am

So, enjoy it, Mimivan - I got guests to feed and clean up from !!!

hycup

Mon, Oct 05 2009, 1:02 pm

Our shul read kholes. The baal kore said the brach 'lekroe megila' and shechianu, and then proceeded to read it at rapid spead with out leaving time to take a breath or for us to even understand what he was reading.... Smile

mimivan

Mon, Oct 05 2009, 1:14 pm

Chocoholic wrote:

The hair of those guys....

yeah, I found myself saying aloud "Nice sheitel!" LOL

ChossidMom

Mon, Oct 05 2009, 5:31 pm

I think koheles is read in shul on the first day of Succos (or on Shabbos?).

Mimivan, you're a riot.

ruth

Sun, Nov 15 2009, 5:26 am

yes, we read Kohelet at the end of Sukkot. It articulates what we tend to feel at the end of the chagim -- and during sukkot in particual -- we reflect on the impermenence of the physical. For me, I experience it as "the reading" for Mar Cheshvan -- the denoument after the high holidays.

dollhouse

Mon, Jan 04 2010, 6:34 pm

Just fyi, Lubavitch does not generally read Koheles (or Rus, or Shir Hashirim). I found this answer online in a forum, but haven't looked up any of it myself, so can't vouch for it:

I found an answer by the Rebbe to R Uriel Tzimer (3 Sivan 5717), where he says that (1) the Mechaber in Shulchan Aruch does not bring this Obligation, (2) those who bring this Halacha say it is only a "Min'hag Be'alma", (3) THe Mishna in Shaboss begining of Perek 16 says that "Kesuvim should not be read on Shabos", (4) Yerushalmi Megilah (3,5) says that because of that Mishna we do not read Esther on Shabbat.

[Letter was printed in a Teshuvah that was given out at a wedding last summer]

The good news is, Lubavitch start so late that by the time I get to shul it's AS IF they leined koheles! (jk)

gryp

Mon, Jan 04 2010, 6:47 pm

My first reaction to "why do we read koheles" by mimivan was: we don't. Wink

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