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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.
You have a cup full of oil in your hand; if a drop of water falls into it, a corresponding drop of oil spills out. In the same way, if a word of Torah enters your heart, and word of mockery correspondingly exits from it; if a word of mockery enters your heart, a word of Torah exits from it
— Midrash Rabbah, Song of Songs 1
Print Magazine

We are one because we share a single soul, like a single, brilliant sun shining into many bodies. Since the soul is what counts, that makes us essentially one.

That is the meaning of the mitzvah of the Sukkah—a place that encompasses us all equally, rendering us a single whole.

We are also one because none of us are ali...