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Virtual Sukkot & Simchat Torah Box

Virtual Sukkot & Simchat Torah Box

Your Virtual Sukkot/Simhat Torah Box holds many ways to celebrate the holiday. Choose what nurtures you. Listen, watch or read. (Sukkot, October 16-23; Sh’mini Atzeret/Simchat Torah, October 24-25)

October 24-25

Elsie Stern, Ph.D., unpacks what she describes as the downright strangeness of Torah’s conclusion and beginning, in that order.

A person throwing a pot on a potter's wheel

Rabbi Steven Burnstein discusses Kibbutz Gezer’s plans for Simchat Torah and how he can’t imagine a joyous holiday.  

Rabbi Steve Burnstein with an acoustic guitar in front of a congregation

Rabbi Deborah Waxman talks with Justin Rosen Smolen about how the idea of covenant — from biblical narratives to contemporary community-building — emphasizes relationships, mutual responsibility and interdependence

An iPhone screen with a Hashivenu episode playing

Rabbi and scribe Rec Richman writes that Simchat Torah is a celebration of our tradition’s endless invitation to keep imagining

A paper and quill pen

October 16

Rabbi Nicole Fix explores the commonalities between the festival of booths and the ancient tradition of immersive theater.

A younger couple and older couple eating outside with a tree behind them

Rabbi Lilly Solochek shares how, after the introspection of the High Holidays, Sukkot offers a chance to focus attention outwardly.

A dining table set with place settings inside a sukkah

Writer Randi Rose offers tips for how to build a Sukkah, as well as reflections on the meaning of hands-on practice.

A handmade paper chain inside a sukkah

Jodi Rosenfeld’s poem evokes Sukkot’s sensory experience and also serves as a “dare to be happy.”

A lulav and etrog

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