Rebbetzin Lauren Levin

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Shavuot

If Pesach tells us where we came from, Shavuot shows where we are going

How did the Israelites become the Jewish people? It is the story behind next week’s festival

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Vintage engraving by Gustave DorA from 1870 showing a scene from the Old Testament Moses giving the Law upon Mount Sinai

Jewish woman and child visiting their family Sukkah in the Jewish festival of Sukkot. A Sukkah is a temporary structure where meals are taken for the week.

How the succah comes to symbolise our diversity

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Women’s learning is no longer lonely territory

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Kids celebrating Hanukkah. Jewish festival of lights. Children lighting candles on traditional menorah. Boy in kippah with dreidel and Sufganiyah doughnut. Israel holiday.

Why do these lights differ from all other lights?

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Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed Succot

“And the Lord said to Moses: ‘Hew for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones. And I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke’” Exodus 34:1

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September 23, 2021 12:47

Ki Tetzei

“You shall not pervert the judgment of a stranger or an orphan and you shall not take a widow’s garment as security” Deuteronomy 24:17

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August 20, 2021 10:40

“And God told Moses on Mount Sinai saying: Speak to the children of Israel and you shall say to them: ‘When you come to the land that I am giving you, the land shall rest a Sabbath to the Lord’” Leviticus 25:1-2

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May 6, 2021 10:51