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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
You will be gathered up, one by one, O children of Israel
— Isaiah 27:12
Print Magazine
We all suffer a maddening delusion of being something separate from G‑d. The delusion of “I.”
We cannot heal it, because yes, we exist, for He created us.
We cannot live with it, because this chilling notion of otherness is a denial of the truth.
But we can resolve it in the act of learning Torah. In learning Torah, He...
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