Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
The holiday is celebrated with materials typically left on a threshing floor or winepress, such as straw, stalks, and reeds.
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.
Good folk, when they repent, cry over their bad deeds. Really good folk, saints, Tzaddikim, cry over something else altogether.
A sukkah is an embrace. You sit inside and G‑d is hugging you. All of you, from head to toe.
Whatever you do inside your sukkah—sip a beer, chat with a friend, answer your e‑mail, or just sleep soundly—all is transformed into a mitzvah, a secure and timeless connection with the Infinite.
And then, when you leave the...
Some 80 worshippers barricade themselves inside; killer live-streams anti-Semitic diatribe
Customarily, those whose parents are still living leave the sanctuary for the duration of
this short prayer. Why?
Happiness is peace of mind and knowing, “This is what G‑d wants for me right now. This is what He wants me to be doing or not doing, feeling or not feeling.”
Just as it is incumbent upon every Jew to put on tefillin every day, so is there an unequivocal duty which rests upon every individual, from the greatest scholar to the most simple of folk, to set aside a half-hour each day in which to think about the education of his children.
– Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch (1860-1920)
Passing of R. Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo
(1655)
R. Yosef Shlomo was a rabbi, philosopher, and physician. A
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The festival of Sukkot, commemorating G-d's
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