Simchat Torah

Embark on a journey of Jewish learning and discovery, exploring the depth of our Simchat Torah resources, where tagged items including audio, programs, and podcast episodes await your exploration.

A Closer Look at the "Last Days" of Sukkot

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Oct 23, 2024

A Closer Look at the Machzor (Part 9)

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Oct 11, 2024

A Closer Look at the Machzor (Part 7)

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Sep 27, 2024

A Closer Look at the Machzor (Part 5)

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Sep 13, 2024

e-TiM: Hashem Hu ha'Elokim - God's Name(s) in our Tanach & our High Holiday Prayers

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Hashem Hu ha'Elokim - God's Name(s) in our Tanach & our High Holiday Prayers Rabbi Menachem Leibtag Sundays, September, 8 - October, 13, 2024 11:15am Eastern, 6:15pm Israel Time September 8The 'Two Names' for God in Parshat Breiseet & their…
Program
Aug 21, 2024

A Closer Look at the Yom Tov Amidah

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Apr 26, 2024

Simchat Hatorah: Moving in Circles

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Holidays are a most opportune time to instill in our children the values and character traits that personify a Jewish lifestyle. At first glance Pesach, more than any other holiday, seems to embody the critical importance of teaching our children. …
Article
Oct 16, 2022

V'zot HaBracha: It Too is a Blessing

Rabbi Jay Kelman

In one of the great mistakes in history, Alfred Nobel was lucky enough to read his own obituary—a result of an error of an editor who printed Alfred’s obituary instead of that of his recently deceased brother. Reading himself described…
Article
Oct 4, 2015

Simchat Torah: Two Days or One?

Rabbi Jay Kelman

This week’s d'var Torah is sponsored in honour of the 80th birthday of Bashi (Esther) Burack by her children and grandchildren. May she go from strength to strength. “And you shall take for you, on the first day, a beautiful fruit...and rejoice…
Article
Oct 7, 2012

Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah: Peace, Faith, and Learning

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The 14th-century legal code, the Arba Turim, the Four Rows, begins the laws of Sukkot by noting that when one sits in a sukkah, one must be cognizant of the fact that our sukkot commemorate the clouds of glory that guided and protected us during our…
Article
Oct 21, 2011