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Sukkot
Parshah
Heaven & Earth
The testimony of heaven and earth is more than merely a poetic metaphor. Moses was conveying the profound lesson that in order for the message to endure, the Jew must evoke both heaven and earth.
The testimony of heaven and earth is more than merely a poetic metaphor. Moses was conveying the profound lesson that in order for the message to endure, the Jew must evoke both heaven and earth.
Do You Love to “Hate” Sukkot?
We love to kvetch about the difficulty of planning outdoor meals when the heavens may gift us with rain or snow.
We love to kvetch about the difficulty of planning outdoor meals when the heavens may gift us with rain or snow.
Your Questions
What Is Sechach?
The holiday is celebrated with materials typically left on a threshing floor or winepress, such as straw, stalks, and reeds.
The holiday is celebrated with materials typically left on a threshing floor or winepress, such as straw, stalks, and reeds.
By the Numbers
Sukkot Readings
What’s Better than a Bottle of Wine?
Sometimes, what we crave is refreshing, restorative water to slake our thirst … like a Jew’s soul thirsts to reconnect to its G-dly source.
Sometimes, what we crave is refreshing, restorative water to slake our thirst … like a Jew’s soul thirsts to reconnect to its G-dly source.
How I Managed a Very Awkward Shiva Call
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.”
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.”
This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the Sanctuary . . . The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less.
— Exodus 30:13–15
Print Magazine
Afterlife is a very rational, natural consequence of the order of things.
After all, nothing is ever lost—even the body only transforms into earth. But nothing is lost.
So too, the person you are is never lost. That person—that soul—only returns to its origin.
If your soul became acutely attached to the material worl...
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