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Simchat Torah

By the Numbers
12 Facts About Cain and Abel

Learn about the first children born to Adam and Eve.
Take the Hoshanah Rabbah Quiz

What do you know about Hoshanah Rabbah?
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?
The Freeman Files
Kabalat Ol

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?
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.
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."
Jewish News
Finding G-d in Gaza

Lifestyle
Middle Eastern Stuffed Onions (Dolma)

An alternative to stuffed cabbage for Simchat Torah.
Let your home be a meeting place for the wise; sit in the dust of their feet, and drink thirstily of their words
— Ethics of the Fathers 1:4
Print Magazine

As long as everything is going smoothly and you are doing everything right, every step is going to be predictable, as though you’re following a script.

You go to school, you please your teachers, you graduate college and get a nice job. Nothing new. Nothing radical.

But with one failure along the way, one little crash ...