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- Why You'll Love Simchat TorahThere is something genuinely restorative about being unguardedly, uncomplicatedly happy in public. A... Read More
- First We Light, Then We DanceBlessings and instructions for Shemini Atzeret candle lighting. Read More
- The Boy Who Walked Out of the Gas Chamber AliveMiraculously, just as he finished the Shema, a German officer entered the gas chamber with an abrupt... Read More
Daily Thought
On Simchat Torah we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah is something we study with our heads. But we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
If we would dance with our heads, each one would dance a different dance, each in a different space, some with friends but not with others, some as lonesome souls.
One head is higher, one is lower, one is here on earth, the other in the clouds or beyond, and some minds know only their own space that no one else can know.
But we dance with our feet, and all our feet are here on the same earth—none higher and none lower. So now we can all dance as...
Accordion
Jewish History
Tishrei 21, 5787
Jewish History
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Prophecy of Haggai Encouraging the Building of the Second Temple
On this day, the prophet Haggai received a divine message to pass on to “ Zeruba...
Laws and Customs
Daily Study
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Chumash with Rashi
Vezot Hab'rachah, 6th Portion (Devarim (Deuteronom...
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Psalms/Tehillim
Chapters 104-105
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Tanya
Iggeret HaKodesh, middle of Epistle 23
- Rambam
- Hayom Yom
Halachic Times
New York, NY 10010
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5:28 AM
Dawn (Alot Hashachar)
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6:05 AM
Earliest Tallit (Misheyakir)
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6:54 AM
Sunrise (Hanetz Hachamah)
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9:47 AM
Latest Shema
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10:46 AM
Latest Shacharit
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12:44 PM
Midday (Chatzot Hayom)
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1:15 PM
Earliest Mincha (Mincha Gedolah)
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4:13 PM
Mincha Ketanah (“Small Mincha”)
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5:27 PM
Plag Hamincha (“Half of Mincha”)
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6:18 PM
Candle Lighting
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6:36 PM
Sunset (Shkiah)
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7:04 PM
Nightfall (Tzeit Hakochavim)
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12:45 AM
Midnight (Chatzot HaLailah)
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59:12 min.
Shaah Zmanit (proportional hour)
Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Light Shabbat / Holiday Candles at
Light Holiday Candles after
Holiday Ends



