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Sukkot
By the Numbers
9 Reasons You'll Love Sitting in a Sukkah
For just over one week a year, the Jewish world moves out to the shady confines of the sukkah. Here are nine reasons you'll want to pull up a chair.
For just over one week a year, the Jewish world moves out to the shady confines of the sukkah. Here are nine reasons you'll want to pull up a chair.
12 of the World’s Most Interesting Sukkahs
A sukkah can be built anywhere, in any way that suits the builder.
A sukkah can be built anywhere, in any way that suits the builder.
Your Questions
Why Is Sukkot Happier Than Any Other Jewish Holiday?
Passover is the "Season of Our Liberation," Shavuot is the "Season of the Giving of Our Torah" and Sukkot is described simply as the "Season of Our Rejoicing!"
Passover is the "Season of Our Liberation," Shavuot is the "Season of the Giving of Our Torah" and Sukkot is described simply as the "Season of Our Rejoicing!"
Quiz
Podcasts
I Never Thought I Would Marry a Man 25 Years My Senior!
An aspiring diplomat, she took a tutoring job. The man turned out to be kind, courteous and deeply religious. Would a church-going Jew from Ukraine marry a Torah-observant Jew?
An aspiring diplomat, she took a tutoring job. The man turned out to be kind, courteous and deeply religious. Would a church-going Jew from Ukraine marry a Torah-observant Jew?
Video
One Sukkah, One Lulav, One People
The two central mitzvos of Sukkos—the sukkah and the Four Kinds—have at their core the theme of Jewish unity.
The two central mitzvos of Sukkos—the sukkah and the Four Kinds—have at their core the theme of Jewish unity.
Lifestyle
A shepherd went out to feed the king's flock, and the flock was abducted. When the shepherd sought to enter the royal palace, the king said to him: "If you come in now, what will people say? That it was you who have caused the flock to be carried off!" In the same way, G-d said to Moses: "Your greatness is that you have taken the 600,000 out of bondage. But you have buried them in the desert and you wish to bring into the Land a different generation! This being so, people will think that the generation of the desert have no share in the World to Come! No, better be beside them, and you shall in the time to come enter with them."
— Midrash Rabbah
Print Magazine
On Yom Kippur, the souls return to connect to their origin, carrying with them the divine sparks from all they've done in this world.
Their return rises like an aroma of burning incense through the atmosphere, and through endless strata of spiritual realms, until it reaches a place beyond higher and lower. It reaches the...
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