Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
On the fourth day, G-d created the two luminaries. What is the inner meaning of the "small luminary"?
On the cosmic mitzvah scale there really is no difference if I make a blessing over my lulav-and-etrog set, or if that same set is used by a Jew on the streets of Brooklyn.... mitzvah = mitzvah...
On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah. We read from it, study it, and celebrate with a festive meal.
On Simchat Torah, we celebrate the second set of tablets that Moses brought down from the mountain on Yom Kippur. We take out every Torah scroll from its place, hug and kiss each one, sing its praises, and...
Meat and rice, rolled up in cabbage and cooked in a decadent sauce - a Simchat Torah classic. With step-by-step photo instructions.
Sukkot reminds us that we are continually in G-d’s warm embrace, enveloped by His infinite love.
Sukkot is a weeklong festival celebrated by dwelling in the sukkah, taking the lulav and etrog and joyous feasting.
You can create an over-the-top joyous Sukkot at home, one to
remember fondly long after the pandemic has been relegated to the dusty annals
of history.
And G‑d said to her: Two nations are in your womb, two peoples shall diverge from your insides. One nation will struggle against the other; and the elder shall serve the younger.
– Genesis 25:23
Lubavitcher Rebbe Suffers Massive Heart Attack
(1977)
While celebrating the joyous holiday hakafot with thousands of chassidim in the central... Read More »
Nation Returns Home After Holy-Temple Dedication Festivities
(827 BCE)
At the end of the 14-day dedication festivities celebrating
the completion of the Holy Temple in... Read More »
It is the practice of many communities -- and such is the Chabad custom -- to conduct "hakafot" and... Read More »
In today's musaf prayer we begin to insert the phrase
mashiv haruach umorid hageshem ("who makes the... Read More »
Yizkor, the remembrance prayer for departed parents, is recited today after the morning reading of... Read More »
The festival of Sukkot, commemorating G-d's enveloping protection of the Children of Israel during... Read More »
Today is the last day when we eat in the sukkah (although the blessing on the sukkah, recited before... Read More »
Yizkor, the remembrance prayer for departed parents, is recited today after the morning reading of... Read More »
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