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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?
Podcasts
How He Turned Gangsters Into Graduates
Shimon's past as a bullied orphan prepared him to become a champion of underdogs and an empowering leader, who was knighted for his efforts.
Shimon's past as a bullied orphan prepared him to become a champion of underdogs and an empowering leader, who was knighted for his efforts.
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.
Video
Move Into G-d’s Barracks
During their sojourn in the desert, G-d protected the Jewish people against danger and the elements with the Clouds of Glory, which the Torah refers to as “sukkahs.” To commemorate this, He commanded us to observe the holiday of Sukkos, when we spend a week in temporary huts.
During their sojourn in the desert, G-d protected the Jewish people against danger and the elements with the Clouds of Glory, which the Torah refers to as “sukkahs.” To commemorate this, He commanded us to observe the holiday of Sukkos, when we spend a week in temporary huts.
A person should always learn Torah even if it is for ulterior motives, because from learning for ulterior motives, one comes to learn it for its own sake...
— Talmud, Pesachim 50b
Print Magazine
For hundreds of years, perhaps since the beginning of Creation, a piece of the world has been waiting for your soul to purify and repair it.
And your soul, from the time it was first emanated and conceived, waited above to descend to this world and carry out that mission.
And your footsteps were guided to reach th...
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