Related, Jewish holidays truncate shiva, the seven-day mourning period, reducing shiva from seven days to a single day – a hard concept for many since we are taught about the wisdom of the seven-day shiva period as the transition from mourning to memory. There seems to be such a randomne...
Hard to imagine that happening nowadays. Today, the quintessentialJewish vacation season is Sukkot. In the Jewish world, the Sukkot school break is more significant and longer than the Passover or Hanukkah school breaks. In many educational institutions, it begins just before Yom Kippur and stretch...
“He loves United Hatzalah. He has the Israeli flag of the United Hatzalah, and he put it up in his room in his house and he brings it everywhere he goes. It’s just amazing to see what we’ve managed to do as a country many miles away, the impact we have on the ground, just...
In Israel, Simchat Torah and Shmini Atzeret, which conclude the Sukkot holiday, are observed together on a single day. In the Diaspora, however, there are two separate days: first comes Shmini Atzeret, and then Simchat Torah. Therefore, although the Hamas attack has also been dubbed the “...
Many Supernova attendees who paid $100 a ticket shared Bar’s optimism. “Nova is like a family,” says 26-year-old Tel Aviv bartender Sofia Nikitin. “I bartend at a lot of festivals, and Nova is something different. People got prepared for this party for weeks. Everyone knows ea...
While King David is credited with writing this psalm, he didn’t write it about friends or relatives dwelling in unity. Like so many of his psalms, David penned it as a song of praise to God. The brethren in this psalm are all those who come together to worship ...
as museums explore non-Christmas holidays that often fall around the same time: Hanukkah, Sukkot, Diwali (in certain years), and Kwanzaa. Some worry, however, that approaching the season through the lens of exploring “other” holidays feeds into the precedent that Christmas is the cultural ...
Thanks for sharing, it helps, there are days I question “well I never tried X”. Crazy thinking. Now that I am free, it feels like the life is starting to drain back into me. Life feels sane. I have huge holes to fill in my self esteem, but with time, that can happen. Yes ...
Counted among the days of Hol Hamoed, Hoshanah Rabbah is the name given to the seventh day ofSukkot. The name of this holiday means “the great hoshanah.” A Hoshanah is a selection of seven liturgical poems calling upon God to redeem and rescue theJewishpeople—mainly by sendingrainto ...
This time of the year is also the start of the summer grilling orBBQseason. In the United States, there are a variety of different types of BBQ—all determined by the region where the BBQ takes place. While a lot of different BBQ styles migrate from one place to another, many different...