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Sukkot & Simchat Torah 5766 - October 17-26, 2005
Current
A New Doll for Gittel
"Looking to partner with a few good women and men to bring hope, healing and kindness to New Orleans. I flooded the place and need your help to set it to rights again." (Spotted in the "Help Wanted" section of the New Orleans Time Picayune)
"Looking to partner with a few good women and men to bring hope, healing and kindness to New Orleans. I flooded the place and need your help to set it to rights again." (Spotted in the "Help Wanted" section of the New Orleans Time Picayune)
Living
Invisible Fences
Are you you smart, stupid, graceful, clumsy, bold, wimpy, articulate, shy? Whatever your answers, they will limit and define you as certainly as if they were a cage made out of concrete and steel
Are you you smart, stupid, graceful, clumsy, bold, wimpy, articulate, shy? Whatever your answers, they will limit and define you as certainly as if they were a cage made out of concrete and steel
The Case of the Missing Etrog
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, right?
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, right?
What Is Sukkot?
The Sukkah, the Four Kinds, the "Water-Drawing Celebrations," the meaning of unity, the dynamics of joy, the Kabbalah of the willow -- explored via dozens of essays, insights, readings and stories
The Sukkah, the Four Kinds, the "Water-Drawing Celebrations," the meaning of unity, the dynamics of joy, the Kabbalah of the willow -- explored via dozens of essays, insights, readings and stories
Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah Stories
A Crown of Slippers... Fire Consumes Fire... People of the Book... Simchat Torah, Vilna, 1945... Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1970...
A Crown of Slippers... Fire Consumes Fire... People of the Book... Simchat Torah, Vilna, 1945... Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1970...
Parshah
V’Zot HaBerachah in a Nutshell
Moses blesses each of the twelve tribes. He ascends the mountain where he sees the Land of Israel and passes away, and the Torah tells us, “There arose not a prophet since in Israel like Moses…”.
Moses blesses each of the twelve tribes. He ascends the mountain where he sees the Land of Israel and passes away, and the Torah tells us, “There arose not a prophet since in Israel like Moses…”.
Bereishit in a Nutshell
G‑d creates the world in six days and sanctifies the seventh. The serpent convinces Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, and they are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve bear children, and Cain murders Abel.
G‑d creates the world in six days and sanctifies the seventh. The serpent convinces Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, and they are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve bear children, and Cain murders Abel.
"His left arm is under my head, and His right arm embraces me" (Song of Song 2:6). "His left arm under my head"--this refers to the "Days of Awe" of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; "His right arm embraces me"--this refers to the seven days of Sukkot.
— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (Likkutei Torah)
Print Magazine
Intellect is inadequate because not all things can be explained. Intellect needs faith.
Faith is impotent because it remains forever obscure. Faith needs intellect.
But they are opposites, as contradictory as yes and no:
Faith accepts; Intellect questions.
Faith surrenders; Intellect struggles.
Miraculously, ther...
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