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Your Questions
Why an Italian Etrog?

Many, including Chabad, prefer “Calabria etrogim,” grown on the southern Italian coast in the region of Calabria. Why are these etrogim so prized?
By the Numbers
11 Things Jews Use for Sechach

Take a tour through time and place to discover 11 materials Jews have used for sechach, from Biblical days all the way to the present.
Take the Sukkah Quiz

Don't get stuck in the pine needles!
The Freeman Files
The Sukkah Is Now

The sukkah, when done by the book, is incongruence itself: Live in a temporary structure as though it were permanent. What other structure does that remind you of?
Voices
What Moving for the 10th Time Taught Me About Happiness

What we physically own or possess is not what brings true happiness.
Shabbat is one sixtieth of the World to Come
— Midrash
Print Magazine

The Etrog grows on its tree for an entire year.

It grows from the loving summer sunlight
and from the cold winter darkness.

It grows from the furious autumn winds
and from the caresses of spring rain.

From all that comes to it, it grows.

And that is beauty.

Be an Etrog.

Reshimot #62.​