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Sukkot
Your Questions
Why an Italian Etrog?
Many, including Chabad, prefer “Calabria etrogim,” grown on the southern Italian coast in the region of Calabria. Why are these etrogim so prized?
Many, including Chabad, prefer “Calabria etrogim,” grown on the southern Italian coast in the region of Calabria. Why are these etrogim so prized?
By the Numbers
11 Things Jews Use for Sechach
Take a tour through time and place to discover 11 materials Jews have used for sechach, from Biblical days all the way to the present.
Take a tour through time and place to discover 11 materials Jews have used for sechach, from Biblical days all the way to the present.
The Freeman Files
The Sukkah Is Now
The sukkah, when done by the book, is incongruence itself: Live in a temporary structure as though it were permanent. What other structure does that remind you of?
The sukkah, when done by the book, is incongruence itself: Live in a temporary structure as though it were permanent. What other structure does that remind you of?
Voices
What Moving for the 10th Time Taught Me About Happiness
What we physically own or possess is not what brings true happiness.
What we physically own or possess is not what brings true happiness.
An ox was once being led to sacrifice, but would not budge. A poor man came along with a bundle of endive in his hand. He held it out towards the ox, which ate it... and then allowed itself to be led to sacrifice. In a dream it was revealed to the owner of the ox: "The poor man's sacrifice superceded yours."
— Midrash Rabbah
Print Magazine
In the month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah, a signal goes out to every Jewish soul that it is time to return to the palace that is home.
It is a signal both subtle and loud.
Subtle, because it does not awaken even those who are closest—every soul must awaken itself. Loud, because it reaches those who have been...
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