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What You Need to Know About Waving the Lulav And Etrog
What, when, and how to wave the lulav and etrog.
What, when, and how to wave the lulav and etrog.
By the Numbers
15 Facts You Should Know About the Etrog
This fine-smelling yellowish fruit has a special place in Judaism.
This fine-smelling yellowish fruit has a special place in Judaism.
10 Questions: Take the Lulav and Etrog Quiz
Take this quiz to see how much you know about the Lulav and Etrog!
Take this quiz to see how much you know about the Lulav and Etrog!
Your Questions
What's the Meaning of the Sukkah?
The sukkah serves to remind us of our humble beginnings as a fledgling nation, when we did not have any permanent dwellings and had to live in simple huts.
The sukkah serves to remind us of our humble beginnings as a fledgling nation, when we did not have any permanent dwellings and had to live in simple huts.
Letters of Light
Lifestyle
Jewish News
When laying siege on a city to conquer it, we do not surround it from all four sides, but only from three sides, leaving a way to escape for anyone who wishes to flee for his life. As it is written: "And they warred against Midian, as G-d commanded Moses" (Numbers 31:7)--it has been handed down by tradition that this is what G-d had commanded him.
— Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and their Wars, 6:7
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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