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Sit, eat, stay a little while in the sukkah
Sukkot is \’z\’man simchatenu\’ — our season of rejoicing. It is a time to celebrate, to enjoy meals with guests, to sing, to study and to appreciate life. It is a time \’le-shev ba-Sukkah,\’ to live life to its fullest — in the sukkah.
Questions, Prayers and Shabbat Lights
Questions, Prayers and Shabbat Lights.
Celebrating a Shpiel-Good Holiday
Reading the Megillah in esoteric tongues is part of the Purim fun at this Los Angeles synagogue, and congregant Maggie Anton Parkhurst has chosen this infinitely tongue-tying imaginary language of the Trekkies to make her bid at hilarity.
Blind Faith
Jews often live in calendar dialectics. Annually, we oscillate between two Jewish New Years (Tishrei/Nissan) and two \”Judgment Days\” (Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur). the Dubner Maggid, Rabbi Yaakov Krantz, perhaps the greatest Jewish storyteller of all time, was once asked: Why do we celebrate both Simchat Torah and Shavuot? Why not condense them into one grand holiday?
Right on Time
\”I have to wait a month longer this year to eat apples and honey,\” complains Jeremy, 16.