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Sukkot & Simchat Torah 5766 - October 17-26, 2005
Current
A New Doll for Gittel
"Looking to partner with a few good women and men to bring hope, healing and kindness to New Orleans. I flooded the place and need your help to set it to rights again." (Spotted in the "Help Wanted" section of the New Orleans Time Picayune)
"Looking to partner with a few good women and men to bring hope, healing and kindness to New Orleans. I flooded the place and need your help to set it to rights again." (Spotted in the "Help Wanted" section of the New Orleans Time Picayune)
Living
Invisible Fences
Are you you smart, stupid, graceful, clumsy, bold, wimpy, articulate, shy? Whatever your answers, they will limit and define you as certainly as if they were a cage made out of concrete and steel
Are you you smart, stupid, graceful, clumsy, bold, wimpy, articulate, shy? Whatever your answers, they will limit and define you as certainly as if they were a cage made out of concrete and steel
The Case of the Missing Etrog
On the cosmic mitzvah scale there really is no difference if I make a blessing over my lulav-and-etrog set, or if that same set is used by a Jew on the streets of Brooklyn.... mitzvah = mitzvah, right?
On the cosmic mitzvah scale there really is no difference if I make a blessing over my lulav-and-etrog set, or if that same set is used by a Jew on the streets of Brooklyn.... mitzvah = mitzvah, right?
What Is Sukkot?
The Sukkah, the Four Kinds, the "Water-Drawing Celebrations," the meaning of unity, the dynamics of joy, the Kabbalah of the willow -- explored via dozens of essays, insights, readings and stories
The Sukkah, the Four Kinds, the "Water-Drawing Celebrations," the meaning of unity, the dynamics of joy, the Kabbalah of the willow -- explored via dozens of essays, insights, readings and stories
Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah Stories
A Crown of Slippers... Fire Consumes Fire... People of the Book... Simchat Torah, Vilna, 1945... Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1970...
A Crown of Slippers... Fire Consumes Fire... People of the Book... Simchat Torah, Vilna, 1945... Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1970...
Parshah
V’Zot HaBerachah in a Nutshell
Moses blesses each of the twelve tribes. He ascends the mountain where he sees the Land of Israel and passes away, and the Torah tells us, “There arose not a prophet since in Israel like Moses…”.
Moses blesses each of the twelve tribes. He ascends the mountain where he sees the Land of Israel and passes away, and the Torah tells us, “There arose not a prophet since in Israel like Moses…”.
Bereishit in a Nutshell
G‑d creates the world in six days and sanctifies the seventh. The serpent convinces Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, and they are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve bear children, and Cain murders Abel.
G‑d creates the world in six days and sanctifies the seventh. The serpent convinces Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, and they are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve bear children, and Cain murders Abel.
In sukkot [huts] you shall dwell for seven days . . . in order that your generations shall know that I made the children of Israel dwell in sukkot when I took them out of the land of Egypt.
— Leviticus 23:42–43
Print Magazine
Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.
In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.
These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”
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