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Sukkot & Simchat Torah 5767 - October 6-15, 2006

The Bleeding Hat

We danced and sang in the sukkah, the transformative rain a mikvah-like immersion in G‑d’s presence and will . . .
A Sixth Dimension

They were carrying branches and fruit. They wanted me to wave them in the air, to shake them in all directions. For G‑d. For world peace. For unity . . .
The Secret of the Fifteen Steps

At the call of the dawn, two priests sounded their trumpets and began to descend the fifteen steps that led down from the Men’s Courtyard to the Women’s Courtyard . . .
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Hakafot in Liozna

“Fire consumes fire,” said the Rebbe. “The ‘fiery law’ of Torah will consume the fever induced by the frost . . .”
In a Nutshell

The Sukkah, the Four Kinds, the "Water-Drawing Celebrations," the meaning of unity, the dynamics of joy, the Kabbalah of the willow, the "eighth day of retention," the Torah's dancing feet -- concisely summarized and liberally linked
Parshah
V’Zot HaBerachah in a Nutshell
Moses blesses each of the twelve tribes. He ascends the mountain where he sees the Land of Israel and passes away, and the Torah tells us, “There arose not a prophet since in Israel like Moses…”.

If good is good, is better not better?


— Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch (1834-1882)
Print Magazine

True peace is not a forced truce, not a homogenization of differences, not a common ground that abandons our home territories.

True peace is the oneness that sprouts from diversity, the beauty that emerges from a panorama of colors, strokes and textures, from the harmony of many instruments each playing a unique part, n...

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