In one of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook’s most famous poems, “The Four-Fold Song,” he speaks about four dimensions of our soul’s ...

Etrogs, important components of a ritual for the Sukkot holiday, are known as xiang yuan (fragrant citrus, or citron) in Chinese. While American Jews may spend anywhere between $20 and $200 on a ...

For Purim, they eat hamentashen, cookies in the shape of the three-cornered hat worn by the holiday's villain, Haman. And Sukkot, the multi-day celebration that follows Yom Kippur and commemorates ...

Sukkot is a festival celebrated by Jewish people around the world, starting on 29 September, and lasting for one week (or eight days in countries outside Israel) ending on 6 October. The festival ...

For some communities, sukkah hopping, in which people (often kids or families) visit several sukkahs and eat something in each one, is a classic Sukkot holiday ritual. Sukkahs would seem to be ...

Shemni Atseret 22-23 Tishrei. A holiday at the end of Sukkot that has no special ritual attached to it, commemorates no historical event, celebrates no agricultural accomplishment. It is a holiday of ...