Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
The Torahs were technically considered state property and that tampering with them could result in the harshest punishments.
On Simchat Torah we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah is something we study with our heads. But we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
If we would dance with our heads, each one would dance a different dance, each in a different space, some with friends but not...
What’s with the Jews and their stubborn insistence on living in a world of superstitions and anachronisms?
What to do when you don't have a suitable yard or balcony for a sukkah? You can make it on the back of a truck! This short video shows how it's done.
Many old-timers
recall the custom for children to carry a candle stuck into an apple on top of
a flag.
It had been a drizzly morning, gray and overcast, and I stood like a soldier outside a local bagel shop.
“We have another son, who, unfortunately, is not well. He is autistic. He needs a blessing.”
Meat and rice, rolled up in cabbage and cooked in a decadent sauce - a Simchat Torah classic. With step-by-step photo instructions.
The holiday is celebrated with materials typically left on a threshing floor or winepress, such as straw, stalks, and reeds.
In the Burning Bush, Moses beheld the heart of the simple Jew, who lacks the learning and spiritual achievement of the "fruit bearing trees," and whose heart therefore burn with an insatiable yearning for G-d
– Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
Prophecy of Haggai Encouraging the Building of the Second Temple
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