Living Torah Archives

The world consists of various time zones. Consequently, commandments which are dependent on time take place at different times in the various places where Jews live. One region can be celebrating Shabbos, while another is busy at work.

“Ech Ti” is a chasidic nigun first taught by the Rebbe on Simchas Torah 5718 – 1958. Its words, in Hebrew and Belarusian, revolve around a fool who travels to a market, but doesn’t actually buy or sell anything.

During the slavery of the Jewish people in ancient Egypt, Pharaoh’s harshest decree was that every male child born, be drowned in the Nile.