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In the same way others live in space, Jews live in time. It’s all here, all at once.
This Simchat Torah, two Torah scrolls that escaped persecution are being celebrated once again
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 wit...
Water shows up in all sorts of places in Jewish life, from holiday traditions to everyday practices.
Shaindy Plotzker is a queen of the women-only stage. But she once was too shy to sing and preferred to teach. A medical scare gave her the inspiration she needed to start inspiring others.
‘It is not about how many times the sukkah falls down, but how many times we get to rebuild it’
The Chabad Rebbes were exceedingly meticulous in the mitzvah of sukkah, going beyond the letter of the law to never eat or drink out of the sukkah. Learn why sleep is different.
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper's nest. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of G-d, as the waters cover the sea
– From Isaiah's prophesy on Moshiach, read on the 8th day of Passover
10/7 Attacks in Israel
(2023)
Early on this day, as Israel prepared to celebrate the joyous Simchat Torah holiday, Hamas terrorists... Read More »
Lubavitcher Rebbe Suffers Massive Heart Attack
(1977)
While celebrating the joyous holiday hakafot with thousands of chassidim in the central Chabad-Lubavit... 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 Jerus... Read More »
It is the practice of many communities -- and such is the Chabad custom -- to conduct "hakafot" and da... Read More »
In today's musaf prayer we begin to insert the phrase
mashiv haruach umorid hageshem ("who makes the w... Read More »
Yizkor, the remembrance prayer for departed parents, is recited today after the morning reading of the... Read More »
The festival of Sukkot, commemorating G-d's enveloping protection of the Children of Israel during the... Read More »
Today is the last day when we eat in the sukkah (although the blessing on the sukkah, recited before e... Read More »
Yizkor, the remembrance prayer for departed parents, is recited today after the morning reading of the... Read More »
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