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Simchat Torah
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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
Even if a sharp sword is placed across a person's throat, he should not despair of prayer
— Talmud, Berachot 10a
Print Magazine
Man sees a tree and the tree says, “I am here, I was here, and I am nothing more but a thing that is here.”
Man ponders and answers, “No! I give you a name! You are ‘tree’! You have beauty and you have a soul. You point upwards and you say, ‘There is something higher, there is the One who gives me life and gives me my ve...
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