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Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah

By the Numbers
Why You'll Love Simchat Torah at Chabad

Here's what's waiting for you.
Freeman Files
Yizkor of the Child Who Would Rather Not Remember

In the same way others live in space, Jews live in time. It’s all here, all at once.
Podcasts
The Singer Who Almost Never Sang

Shaindy Plotzker is a queen of the women-only stage. But she once was too shy to sing and preferred to teach. A medical scare gave her the inspiration she needed to start inspiring others.
Voices
A Jew Walks Down the Street in America

A prescient talk from the Previous Rebbe on Simchat Torah, 1944.
When my master and teacher [R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi] was in a state of d'veikut (lit. "attachment," a trance-like state of ecstatic cleaving to G-d) he would cry out: "I want nothing at all! I don't want Your 'garden of eden,' I don't want Your 'world to come'... I want nothing but You alone."
— Related by Rabbi Schneur Zalman's grandson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch
Print Magazine

There are many flavors of joy. What makes the joy of Sukkot so immense?

It’s not joy that tastes rich like wine.

It’s not joy that tastes sweet as honey.

It’s not a joy with any particular cause.

Not a celebration of any event.

Just the joy of being a Jew and having one G-d, Creator of heaven and earth, wit...

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