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Simchat Torah
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
G-d, through His individual Providence, gives each and every person the ability to bring the Supernal Will from the potential state to the actual by fulfilling the mitzvot and strengthening Judaism and our holy Torah at all times in every place. All depends solely upon the person making the effort.
— Hayom Yom, Iyar 21
Print Magazine
Mitzvah (mits-va): An instruction in life from the Giver of Life.
A stroke of brilliance arising from the innermost will of the Creator of all things, left for you to perform on the stage of His world.
A connection point in time, at which Heaven meets Earth, Earth meets Heaven, and the two embrace.
An instance, left in...
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