How appropriate then, that in the Parasha we will read on that day, we read of another ‘simcha of unity’, also a simcha based on the Torah: the simcha of Zebulun and of Issachar. We read ...

Long ago, Issachar, an innkeeper in Bethlehem found it necessary to travel to the city of Jerusalem on business for his inn. Upon his arrival there, he discovered the city was in a tremendous uproar.