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Simchat Torah
Video
What Is Simchat Torah?
Once a year the synagogue becomes a dance floor and the Torah becomes our dance partner.
Once a year the synagogue becomes a dance floor and the Torah becomes our dance partner.
What Is Chitas?
Get the inside scoop on the daily study program, which includes Chumash, Tehillim, and Tanya.
Get the inside scoop on the daily study program, which includes Chumash, Tehillim, and Tanya.
Connecting the Dots: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot
Discover the flow and continuum of the High Holiday season—a month packed with holidays, from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur to Sukkot.
Discover the flow and continuum of the High Holiday season—a month packed with holidays, from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur to Sukkot.
By the Numbers
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?
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
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?
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.
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."
"And Chanoch walked with G-d; and he was no more, for G-d had taken him."
Jewish News
Lifestyle
Blessed are You, G‑d . . . Who has chosen us from all the nations, and gaves us His Torah. Blessed are You, G‑d, who gives the Torah.
— Daily “Blessing on the Torah”
Print Magazine
Blind faith cannot grasp Truth, because it does not grasp anything at all.
Intellect cannot grasp Truth, because intellect is finite and Truth is infinite.
Only the eye of the soul, its inner wisdom, can grasp Truth and know it as she knows her own self.
For she is Truth.
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