By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston In the beginning, God made the Heaven and the Earth. (Bereishis 1:1) The words are so incredibly simple, and yet, of course,...

15 Simchat Torah Facts Every Jew Should Know By Menachem Posner-Chabad 1. Simchat Torah Comes After Sukkot The sukkah at the East River Esplanade at East 84th Street (Photo: Howard Blas) Shemini Atzeret (“The Eighth...

Simchat Torah All Year Round Why the High Holidays? Why Not the Day of the Birthright Dance?! www.chabad.org- Tzvi Freeman- When I was a child, we were...

By JNS American Jews have internalized the non-Jewish conception of religion, according to Professor David Graizbord, associate director of Judaic Studies at University of Arizona. https://youtu.be/9IHlSIutRpQ “Judaism...

Simchas Torah – Cherish the Children By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Simchas Torah. A day of joyous celebration upon the completion of reading the weekly parshah, and...

Slovie Jungreis-Wolff (aish.com) Plug into the joy and spiritual depth of this incredible Jewish holiday. The holiday of Sukkot brings us to a place of joy,...

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Rabbi Menachem Posner- Chabad.org 1. It’s a Shelter We Dwell in on Sukkot The word sukkah best translates as “shelter” or “cover” and refers to the space where we...

Prayers for rain, Yizkor, farewell to the sukkah, and . . . dancing! By: Chabad.org In 2022, Shemini Atzeret begins before sundown on Oct. 16. Simchat Torah begins at...

Celebrating a weeklong emphasis on food, family, friends, tradition and the great outdoors. By: Ethel G. Hofman We are twice blessed. Sukkot, the harvest festival—and sometimes...

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston And this (V’zos) is the blessing which Moshe, the Man of G-d, blessed the Children of Israel before his death. (Devarim...

By: Rabbi Yochanan Zweig "The Torah that Moshe commanded us is a heritage to the Congregation of Jacob"(33:4) Simchas Torah is a day in which we...

By: Larry Domnitch   The Duke of Manheim once asked Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Levin, ‘The Rav of Berlin’ the reason that children ask the ‘Four Questions’...

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By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin It’s Succos time. Time to get a lulav and essrog. Time to take the succah walls out of storage. Time to...

By: Menachem Posner The seven days of Sukkot—celebrated by dwelling in the sukkah, taking the Four Kinds, and rejoicing—are followed by Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah (October...