It’s strained, if not seemingly impossible, to embody joy right now. The divine strands of joy around us are so dim as to be nearly invisible.
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On this day, Shemini Atzeret, God instructs us to stop looking for the appreciation of those nations whom we work so hard to benefit and to take this day to rejoice with Him.
Demand for ready-made food is rising. With little price difference and time saved, is it worth spending hours in the kitchen before the holiday meal?
Jews across the US shelled out about $15 for a dozen ready-to-construct cardboard boxes emblazoned with Hebrew letters that spelled a phonetic variation on “tuchus” — the Yiddish word meaning “butt."
In Kfar Aza and Metulla, Be’eri and Kiryat Shmona, dozens of sukkot are standing since last year, as their owners were killed, kidnapped, or forced to flee, unable to take them down.
The message here, for us, is painfully obvious. After a year of national grief and worry, a year of continuous tragedies and trauma, what we really want – and need – is simply to live.
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