Local rabbis talk about their High Holy Day plansBiracial Jewish writer talks about forgiveness, love, and life on SelichotThe one holiday that has baffled me for years is Shemini Atzeret. Trump is bad for America and bad for the JewsNew Local Owners of Teaneck Mathnasium Add to Enrichment OptionsAccording to my friend Rabbi Ariel Burger, this is a day of just being, an opportunity to process everything that has happened, to integrate what we have struggled with and learned.We proudly welcome the New Jersey Jewish News to our publishing company.Local Jewish artist wins contest for corona-time artTeaneck Girls Take the Stage in Off-Broadway ShowChabad leadership meets with incoming Rutgers presidentJewish Home Family fights against Parkinson’s and covidTransgender writing teacher talks about transition before Selichot at Beth Sholom in Teaneck This day is called Simchat Torah. Local Dentist: From Israel to Africa to Teaneck, with a Few Stops In BetweenJFCS webinar will help grads navigate the job marketShemini Atzeret is the vacation to recover from the holiday. The eighth day of Assembly. Religious activity is not meant to be at odds with normal, everyday life; it is meant to facilitate it.May we enjoy, this Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah, both the spiritual and the practical, every-day gifts we have been given. By signing up, you agree to our The story is that after we just spent seven days rejoicing in the beauty of nature during Sukkot (after all, what’s more welcoming than building a little house with no door on it? Midreshet Rockland’s fall Jewish education courses Maimonides here is coming down on the side of the real, the everyday, and teaching us that these basic needs are extremely important, and must be given their space, even in a “religious” life, which does, at times, strive for transcendence. (If you’ve ever gone on a trip with kids, you know exactly what I’m talking about.) What Happens on Shemini Atzeret The one ritual specific to this day is the recitation of the Prayer for Rain.

Using both classic and contemporary material, we take a look at these portions in a fresh way, relating them to both ancient Jewish concerns as well as cutting-edge modern issues and topics. (I have no idea why, but when it comes to matters of cheesecake, it is not mine to question.) In the Diaspora it goes on for two days, with the first day being Shemini Atzeret and the next being the Celebration of the Torah.The Rabbis of the Midrash and Talmud deal with the connection between these two holidays by first noticing that the sacrifices offered in the Temple become very different as we move from the seven days of Sukkot to the Eighth Day. In the diaspora, Simchat Torah is celebrated on the day after Shemini Atzeret. Returning to the Land of Israel, and political, cultural, and social autonomy, we now again have a chance to fully realize the importance of the every-day, of life itself, as we live it in a socially and culturally Jewish framework, in which the nuts and bolts of friends, family, community, and culture can be seen as being just as important, from a Torah perspective, as the more rarefied spiritual heights we also aim for. Finally.New beginnings: Wines to celebrate a fresh startYeshivat Noam teaches social and emotional learning to its students in Paramus I can’t remember the first time I became aware of it, and to be honest, I didn’t care much about it until last year when my older daughter started attending Jewish day school. Builders School will focus on training for trades