Sukkot & Simchat Torah 5770 - October 2-11, 2009 |
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What If We Built the World’s Greatest Sukkah?
By Dovid Taub and Yitzchak Feigenbaum
Ezy, Eli, Dina and the newest character, Rina, try to come up with ideas to make the world's greatest sukkah and learn an important lesson in the process. |
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Rabbi Infinity's Super Sukkah
By Tzvi Freeman
Using exclusively licensed technology from KabbalaLabs Disincorporated, the latest device in time-travel is now being marketed to the public by Infinity Labs Intergalactical... |
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The Etrog
The beauty of “the four kinds” is the etrog, the citron fruit. What distinguishes the etrog from an ordinary lemon? |
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The Last Show?
Dovid Taub & Jonathan Goorvich
The members of the Itche Kadoozy Show team cope with the end of the Parshah Report |
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Four Kinds, Six Directions
By Tzvi Freeman
The movements we make with the Four Kinds each day of Sukkot are a meditation on bringing our emotions into balanced harmony... |
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Time for a Rest Stop
By Chana Weisberg
It's been an awfully long time since I spotted the last road sign. And the darker it becomes, the harder I strain to see ahead. And then, when the despair is almost reaching a fever pitch, I see it... |
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A Houseplant Named Ned
By N. Ozick
I think I am going to buy a houseplant and name it Ned. I realized I needed a houseplant after my internet stopped working a few hours ago, and there was nobody around to talk to. Mostly I will talk to Ned about the word "in." |
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Marriage is a Verb
By Sara Chana Radcliffe
When marriage is neglected, it dies – just like a plant that isn't watered. Very few ever ask themselves: "what have I done to create this mess? And what have I done to prevent it?" |
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Why Are Some Kids so Difficult?
By Tzippora Price
I wish I could say that as a mother I love all of my kids equally. But no matter how much I lecture myself, or try to pretend, the truth is that some of them just seem to push all my buttons and put me on edge. |
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Duel in the Sukkah
By Zalman Velvel
Gabriel stared back at the rabbi, not liking to be ordered around. But when he once again saw the tears streaming down the rabbi's face, tears he felt responsible for, his anger dissipated... |
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The Unpopular Tzaddik
By Yerachmiel Tilles
Rabbi Pinchas raised his eyes. There stood the first of the Ushpizin--the honored guest for the first night of the festival--outside the door of his sukkah... |
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The Aluminum Sukkah
By Avraham Berkowitz
"I couldn't contain my emotions. I began to cry... I had only meant to make the sukkah more beautiful!" |
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"This Is My Torah Scroll"
By Ruth Benjamin
The soldier stared at the boy, fighting back tears. "Over these four terrible years, this is the first live Jewish child I have seen..." |
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"Because"
By Elad Nehorai
He told me to breathe in. Breathe out. Lay down. Sit up. Stand up. Dance the polka. After this was all done, he sent me downstairs. I thought my ordeal was over. But, no... |
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Does G-d Break the Rules?
By Tzvi Freeman
The world seemingly runs by rules of cause and effect and laws of nature. If so, how does G‑d get His "foot in the door" in this world. Does He override cause and effect and the laws of nature? |
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Is it Okay to be a Hypocrite?
By Moshe Goldman
Can I wear tzitzit if I drive on Shabbat? |
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A Bridge to Somewhere
By Eliezer Shemtov and Dr. "Mario Grinberg"
I don't know what words to use to express my thanks: for being with me at such a special moment, at the marriage of my daughter; for your book; for the tefillin; in short, for making me feel that you care about me. |
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A Sukkah to Survive
By Ari Shishler
Be it due to pogroms, expulsions, or an innate itch for change, we've crisscrossed the globe numerous times throughout history. This may explain why the sukkah so resonates with us... |
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You Never Have To Be Alone Again
By Benyamin Bresinger
If I can enter the Sukkah and sit still, study, pray and expose my self-sabotaging thoughts for what they are, I can hopefully experience what this holiday is all about -- a 7-day hug from my Father in heaven. |
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The Sukkahs in My Life
by Sara Debbie Gutfreund
I imagine my grandparents' sukkahs in the courtyards and on the rooftops of the Lower East Side tenement buildings. I think of the sukkahs in Poland and Hungary before the war; maybe they were also once covered in pure, white snow... |
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Sukkah Wizard
How to build a Sukkah - a step-by-step guide |
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Sukkot & Simchat Torah Mega-Site
A spectacular celebration of Jewish unity, faith in G-d, and the completion of the annual Torah reading cycle. |
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V'Zot HaBerachah (Deut. 33:1-34:12)
Visions, blessings and awesome things, daughters of winter and dancing scrolls, as the annual Torah reading cycle draws to a close and immediately begins anew |
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Broken and Whole
By Tzvi Freeman
When you find the Infinite, where will you put it? In your broken vessel? It will not stay. In a new, whole one? It will not fit... |
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