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I’ve come to the conclusion we need to change the date of Simchat Torah. Our Jewish festivals must be re-envisioned as inspirational community gatherings of joyful spiritual Jewish celebration.  Every single festival needs to be a time of great community involvement and meaning.

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

As a kid, Shabbat meant brisket. I loved that. Every once in a while, my mother would get inspired and feel the need to… cook? No, she always cooked in those days. It wasn't until many years later that dinner was more likely to be ordered than made.

The details of the lunar cycle have been understood for thousands of years. 

The Case for Applesauce
by Laurence Kaufman