Rabbi Jonathan Sacks points out that when you read the Passover story, you come across something so remarkable and counterintuitive, which has an important lesson for us today.
Jewish Holidays
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Rosalind Russell
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Chanukah 2019, The Battle Continues
Here is a timeless message from Simon the Maccabee:
“We have not taken a foreign land, nor did we take the property of others — for this is the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. But we, having the opportunity, returned to us the inheritance of our fathers.”
— First Book of the Maccabees, 15:33-34.
“לא ארץ נוכריה לקחנו ולא ברכוש זרים משלנו, כי אם נחלת אבותינו, אשר בידי אויבינו בעת מן העיתים בלא משפט נכבשה. ואנחנו כאשר הייתה לנו עת, הושיבונו נחלת אבותינו” (ספר מקבים א, טו’ לג-לד) [Read more…] about Chanukah 2019, The Battle Continues
Succot 2019: Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah
Photos by: Steve Cohn Photography www.stevecohnphotography.com (310) 277-2054 © 2019
…On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, seven days for the L-RD… on the eighth day, there shall be a holy convocation for you. -Leviticus 23:34
Tonight begins the last days of the Succot holiday, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. We will be offline until Wednesday. We wish all our friends and relatives a joyous and inspirational holiday.
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Succot 2019
As Jews all over the world make last minute preparations for the holiday of Sukkot, which begins this evening, here are a few wonderfully evocative pictures of Jews celebrating this joyous holiday in Israel — and a rare photo of Jews in Samarkand.
You will dwell in booths for seven days; all natives of Israel shall dwell in booths.
—Leviticus 23:42
On the first day, you will take for yourselves a fruit of a beautiful tree, palm branches, twigs of a braided tree and brook willows, and you will rejoice before the L-RD your G-d for seven days.
—Leviticus 23:40