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Month of Elul	During this month of Elul, a Jew can almost sense the difference in the air. Everyone feels an inexplicable urge to draw closer to G-d, to increase in Torah and mitzvot. The G-dly soul that every Jew possesses automatically pulls him in the direction of holiness. However, there are two basic ways to motivate a person: the "carrot" and the "stick." Extended Article

Rosh Hashana	On Rosh Hashanah, we ask from G-d writing a good signature, a sweet new year. What right do we ask this, when our actions over the past year may not have been properly? Although we come to Rosh Hashana after awakening of repentance during the month of Elul, Selichot days, and - this could be repentance is not complete. Extended Article

Yom Kippur	The difference between the two days is obvious: on New Year must not suffer, and vice versa, in order to eat and drink and eat "meat ... and all kinds of sweets." By contrast, Yom Kippur is a day of fasting and torture of the body, which we avoid eating and drinking and other physical commodities. Extended Article

Sukkot Holiday	Sukkot Mitzvah to rejoice many other holidays, the Torah calls this holiday "while our joy." It is that command to rejoice during Sukkot appears in the Torah three times, three happy. Extended Article

JoY Of Torah	Although the a custom hakafot existed throughout the generations, from the time of Moses, as we say in poetry "will dance and be glad on Simchat Torah" - "Moses Happy on Simchat Torah", meant that, Moses' Happy on Simchat Torah Extended Article

Chnukkah	Some people think that the most important Hanukkah is the military side. The victory over the enemy; and release the Holy Land from the Greek tyranny. While the military is the most important thing, without which there were no other developments that determined the Chanukah. Extended Article

Tu B'Shvat	In the First place, Tu B'Shvat is determined only as the date for implementation of laws related to fruit tree - And in particular laws of donations and tithes that the farmer have to do as taxes. As explained by Maimonides in his book Extended Article

Purim	Every holiday have special commandments. One of the commandments of Purim is - must get drunk on Purim until he doesn't knew the real cursed Haman and blessed Mordechai. "This duty applies to any amount of Purim, and does not like to read the Megilah, for example, after reading the Megilah man already did the commandment; Extended Article

Passover	Chametz is the antithesis of matzah, the unleavened bread we eat on Passover to recall the haste in which we left Egypt, and the humble faith by which we merited redemption. Matzah is the symbol of the Exodus, a central component of the Seder rituals, and the heart of the "Festival of Matzot" (as Passover is called in the Torah). Extended Article

Lag B'Omer	Lag B'Omer is the day of death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. As we know, before Rabbi Shimon past away, he gathered all the disciples and found them secrets of the Torah, which is not revealed to them all his life. Secrets he had discovered a very special, and his concern to discover them. Extended Article

Shavuot	The Torah was given by G‑d to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai more than 3300 years ago. Every year on the holiday of Shavuot we renew our acceptance of G‑d’s gift, and G‑d “re-gives” the Torah. The word Shavuot means “weeks.” It marks the completion of the seven-week counting period between Passover and Shavuot. Extended Article

Tu B'Av	Mishnah on end of Ta'anit, describes the festival as follows: "Said Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, were better days for Israel on the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, where the daughters of Jerusalem out white clothes borrowed from others, not to shame the have-nots. All the tools you need to dip. Daughters of Jerusalem out and dance in the vineyards ..." Extended Article