Shavuot - Receiving The Ten Commandments

It is customary for the Jewish family to hear the Ten Commandments in the synagogue on the first day of Shavuot. Experience this special moment with your children this holiday! Ten Commandments These ten commands range from the highest and most refined concepts of the belief ...

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Shavuot: One of the Holiest Days of the Year

Shavuot commemorates the single most important event in Jewish history—the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Shavuot is the culmination of the seven-week-long “counting of the Omer” that occurs following Passover. The very name “Shavuot” means “weeks,&rdquo...

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Shemini Atseret and Simchat Torah

Imagine you throw a huge party and invite everyone you know. But this is no regular party, it's one solid week of food, music and fun. Eventually things wind down and people begin to leave. As the host, you quietly go over to a few of your best friends and whisper: “Stick around after everyone...

10/13/2008 | 126 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Read more...

Sukkot and the Secret of Happiness

Someone's luggage inevitably comes off the conveyor belt first. The odds (compared to say, winning a state lottery) are not really that heavily stacked against you, especially on a local flight. Yet after years of watching other people's luggage pass me by as I vainly waited for my non-descript suit...

09/25/2007 | 351 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Read more...