http://www.breslev.co.il/rss/articles.ashx?id=173&language=englishenBreslev RSS Feedshttp://www.breslev.co.il/Images/breslev.jpghttp://www.breslev.co.il?language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/protective_fortress.aspx?id=22904&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/22904.jpg" alt="Protective Fortress" title="Protective Fortress" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />From the time of Joshua, the Jewish people had not dwelt in sukkot until after their return from the Babylonian exile. Why was this mitzvah neglected for so many centuries?</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/protective_fortress.aspx?id=22904&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/protective_fortress.aspx?id=22904&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_key_to_national_security.aspx?id=20501&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/20501.jpg" alt="The Key to National Security" title="The Key to National Security" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Other nations - even our allies - have been threatening us that we are in danger of political and international isolation. Should we really fear isolation?</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_key_to_national_security.aspx?id=20501&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_key_to_national_security.aspx?id=20501&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_magnitude_of_torah.aspx?id=17109&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/17109.jpg" alt="The Magnitude of Torah" title="The Magnitude of Torah" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />The Pentateuch is only the tip of an iceberg. Infinite knowledge can be gleaned from the Written Law through inference by applying the 13 rules of Biblical exegesis…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_magnitude_of_torah.aspx?id=17109&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_magnitude_of_torah.aspx?id=17109&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/breslover_customs_for_yom_tov.aspx?id=1745&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1745.jpg" alt="Breslover Customs for Yom Tov" title="Breslover Customs for Yom Tov" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />The Rebbe taught that by giving tzedakah before the festival, one is enabled to see through the illusion...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/breslover_customs_for_yom_tov.aspx?id=1745&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/breslover_customs_for_yom_tov.aspx?id=1745&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/her_crown_of_torah_simchat_torah.aspx?id=13931&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/13931.jpg" alt="Her Crown of Torah - Simchat Torah" title="Her Crown of Torah - Simchat Torah" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Can Jewish women earn the crown of Torah? The new generation of Jewish women wants more than just to sit back passively and listen to the wisdom of others…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/her_crown_of_torah_simchat_torah.aspx?id=13931&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/her_crown_of_torah_simchat_torah.aspx?id=13931&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/hoshana_rabba.aspx?id=1733&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1733.jpg" alt="Hoshana Rabba" title="Hoshana Rabba" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Although it is part of the intermediate days of Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba is a Yom Tov unto itself. Its source lies in the traditions of the Prophets. Although the Books are...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/hoshana_rabba.aspx?id=1733&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/hoshana_rabba.aspx?id=1733&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/sukkot_and_the_clouds_of_glory.aspx?id=13932&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/13932.jpg" alt="Sukkot and the Clouds of Glory" title="Sukkot and the Clouds of Glory" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />What is the Torah speaking about when it refers to Sukkot? Are they tents or clouds of glory? What does Sukkot have to do with the month of Tishrei and with the Land of Israel?</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/sukkot_and_the_clouds_of_glory.aspx?id=13932&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/sukkot_and_the_clouds_of_glory.aspx?id=13932&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/rebbe_nachmans_yahrzeit.aspx?id=2282&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/2282.jpg" alt="Rebbe Nachman's Yahrzeit" title="Rebbe Nachman's Yahrzeit" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />“What shall we do?! With whom will you leave us?” The Rebbe then replied, “Just stay together and you will be good Jews…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/rebbe_nachmans_yahrzeit.aspx?id=2282&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/rebbe_nachmans_yahrzeit.aspx?id=2282&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_three_bedouins.aspx?id=10404&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/10404.jpg" alt="The Three Bedouins" title="The Three Bedouins" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Tradition tells that our forefathers reappear in the flesh in times of need, especially in the holy city of Hevron. One Succoth eve, they appeared in the guise of three Bedouins…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_three_bedouins.aspx?id=10404&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_three_bedouins.aspx?id=10404&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/hoshana_raba__the_role_of_the_willow.aspx?id=17103&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/17103.jpg" alt="Hoshana Raba: The Role of the Willow" title="Hoshana Raba: The Role of the Willow" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />On Hoshana Raba, after waving all four species, we set aside the other three species and raise just the willow. Then, after the Hoshana prayers, we beat the willow on the floor…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/hoshana_raba__the_role_of_the_willow.aspx?id=17103&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/hoshana_raba__the_role_of_the_willow.aspx?id=17103&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_annual_telegram.aspx?id=17104&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/17104.jpg" alt="The Annual Telegram" title="The Annual Telegram" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Succoth is a manufacturer’s required exit from the comfort zone that teaches us to focus on the spiritual and eternal, and not on the material and finite.</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_annual_telegram.aspx?id=17104&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_annual_telegram.aspx?id=17104&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_guide_for_sukkot.aspx?id=1107&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1107.jpg" alt="The Guide for Sukkot" title="The Guide for Sukkot" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />“You shall dwell in booths for a seven-day period…So that your generations will know that I caused the Children of Israel to dwell in booths when I took them...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_guide_for_sukkot.aspx?id=1107&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_guide_for_sukkot.aspx?id=1107&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_spiritual_triangle.aspx?id=1729&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1729.jpg" alt="The Spiritual Triangle" title="The Spiritual Triangle" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />He described it as a triangle – we can determine the strength of our relationship to God through the intensity of how we observe the commandment of...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_spiritual_triangle.aspx?id=1729&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_spiritual_triangle.aspx?id=1729&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/jacobs_special_sukkah_guest.aspx?id=1730&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1730.jpg" alt="Jacob's Special Sukkah Guest" title="Jacob's Special Sukkah Guest" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />How could Jacob possible be happy? This had always been his favourite time with Zayde. He would watch Zayde put up his sukkah. Then when all was ready…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/jacobs_special_sukkah_guest.aspx?id=1730&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/jacobs_special_sukkah_guest.aspx?id=1730&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/barometer_of_joy.aspx?id=1734&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1734.jpg" alt="Barometer Of Joy" title="Barometer Of Joy" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Simchat Torah is the time to harvest happiness – 'joy in the heart' – for the whole year; and fourth, Rebbe Nachman himself danced as an expression...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/barometer_of_joy.aspx?id=1734&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/barometer_of_joy.aspx?id=1734&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/simchat_beit_hashoeva.aspx?id=1735&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1735.jpg" alt="Simchat Beit Hashoeva" title="Simchat Beit Hashoeva" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />It was a mass celebration, there were Sages juggling lit torches side by side with the song of the Levites; an orchestra of instruments accompanied the ceremony of drawing...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/simchat_beit_hashoeva.aspx?id=1735&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/simchat_beit_hashoeva.aspx?id=1735&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/sukkot_embrace.aspx?id=1736&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1736.jpg" alt="Sukkot Embrace" title="Sukkot Embrace" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Just as a person embraces his child in love, encircling him with his arms, and sheltering him with his head, so here for the arms there are the two walls...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/sukkot_embrace.aspx?id=1736&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/sukkot_embrace.aspx?id=1736&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_ushpizin.aspx?id=1737&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1737.jpg" alt="The Ushpizin" title="The Ushpizin" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />When the People of Israel leave their homes and enter the sukkah for the sake of Hashem's Name, they merit to welcome the Divine presence there, and all the seven shepherds...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_ushpizin.aspx?id=1737&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_ushpizin.aspx?id=1737&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_most_beautiful_etrog.aspx?id=1738&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1738.jpg" alt="The Most Beautiful Etrog" title="The Most Beautiful Etrog" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Walking home with Agnon, the rabbi emphasized to him how important it was to have a beautiful, flawless etrog on Sukkot, and how the beauty of the etrog...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_most_beautiful_etrog.aspx?id=1738&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/the_most_beautiful_etrog.aspx?id=1738&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/a_sukkot_story.aspx?id=1739&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1739.jpg" alt="A Sukkot Story" title="A Sukkot Story" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />When he learned that Rabbi Levi Yitzchak had ordered the Jews of Berditchev to bar him from their sukkahs, he raced to the Tzaddik's home. 'Why?'...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/a_sukkot_story.aspx?id=1739&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/sukkot_and_simchat_torah/a_sukkot_story.aspx?id=1739&language=english