What is Simchat Torah? Why do Jews celebrate Shabbat? What day does Hanukkah start on the Hebrew calendar? When is Rosh Hashanah on the Hebrew calendar? What is a tefillin? What is the Jewish calendar based on?
Once a month, Jews celebrate a semi-holiday of Rosh Chodesh, or the head of the new month and every year celebrate the holiday of Rosh Hashanah for the new year in the fall. There are a variety of holidays that fall throughout the year, but never on the same days as the solar ...
The love and caring that we have discovered within ourselves since Simchat Torah are beyond comprehension. Rabbi Shmuel Pollak expressed a compelling idea: Why wait for people to be kidnapped, injured, or God forbid, killed, in order to feel this bond? To awaken the deep Jewish spark in our...
Some years, on Simchat Torah, we’ve stood in a circle so we could unroll the scroll and see the story of our people in its entirety. I always try to point out some of major milestones, and the parts that are written in a visually interesting way. I always tell the person standing ...
divided kingdoms. Wars rage. Economies collapse. Trade wars erupt. Nation rises against nation. And yet—in the midst of chaos & calamity, the world still tuned in for updates on the election of a new Pope,and now as one has been chosen, they celebrate in the streets of Rome and world...
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