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Simchat Torah
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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
When my father reads "The Rebuke" (the harsh punishments described in Deuteronomy 28), I don't hear curses
— Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch (son of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi)
Print Magazine
On Simchat Torah we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah is something we study with our heads. But we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
If we would dance with our heads, each one would dance a different dance, each in a different space, some with friends but not wit...
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