We are coming from the most extraordinary month of the year and have entered the dullest month of the year. However, this essay argues that the best opportunities grow from the routine ordinary days.
We are coming from the most extraordinary month of the year and have entered the dullest month of the year. However, this essay argues that the best opportunities grow from the routine ordinary days.
Every Jewish festival celebrates a moment in Jewish history except for the one festival about to come upon us, Shemini Atzeret. It does not celebrate an event that happened, nor is it a celebration of judgment and atonement. It is the only holiday with an eye toward the future. It is the festival of Jewish unity.
The radical transition from the Yom Kippur solemnity to the Simchat Torah revelry can be dizzying, but it makes sense.
Simchat Torah: The Anniversary of the Simchat Torah Massacre October seventh, 2024, was not the first time Jews suffered a
Simchat Torah is usually understood as us rejoicing with the Torah. As we read the last passage of the Torah
On Simchat Torah, we rejoice and dance endless horas around the bimah. Why do we rejoice and why do we
On Simchat Torah we read the last passage of the Torah, but we don’t stop for even a moment when
For ten days we prayed, self examined, and repented. This introspection reached its zenith on Yom Kippur, when we set
The festival of Sukkot falls on the fifteenth of Tishrei, two weeks into the new Jewish year. Accordingly, the Torah
