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Simchat Torah

By the Numbers
12 Facts About Cain and Abel

Learn about the first children born to Adam and Eve.
Take the Hoshanah Rabbah Quiz

What do you know about Hoshanah Rabbah?
Your Questions
Who Chose Simchat Torah as the Day to Start the Cycle?

If the Torah was given on Shavuot, wouldn’t it make sense to celebrate the Torah and start the reading cycle then?
The Freeman Files
What Is Kabbalat Ol?

Essay
Holistic Holiness

Why is the holiday named after the mitzvah of sukkah? Why was this mitzvah chosen to represent the inner message of the holiday—what of the holiday’s other mitzvot?
Adam, The Speaking Creature: On Humanity and Language in the Era of AI

Human speech leaps across the gap between the private language of G-d and the public language of nature.
Parshah
The Rebbe Unravels the Enoch Enigma for a Schoolgirl

"And Chanoch walked with G-d; and he was no more, for G-d had taken him."
Jewish News
Finding G-d in Gaza

Lifestyle
Middle Eastern Stuffed Onions (Dolma)

An alternative to stuffed cabbage for Simchat Torah.

A groan which arises from physical misfortune, G-d forbid, is also a great teshuvah (repentance; return to G-d); how much more so then is a groan arising from spiritual distress...


— Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch (1834-1882)
Print Magazine

We don’t say a person “will be going to heaven.”
We say this person is “a child of the world to come.”

Heaven is not just somewhere you go.
It is something you carry with you.

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