Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” ...

We need to seek a middle path between the usual joy of Simchat Torah and the mourning necessitated by the disaster of Simchat Torah 5784 on October 7. On Simchat Torah 5784 – October 7, 2023 – we ...

Consequently, Simchat Torah, the most joyful day on the Jewish calendar, is now intrinsically connected to one of the darkest days in modern Jewish history. This month marks the first Simchat Torah ...

Simchat Torah is usually understood as us rejoicing with the Torah. As we read the last passage of the Torah and immediately turn around to read the first passage, we rejoice over studying the Torah.

Reading can cause many different emotions. For some people, beginning a new book produces excitement about where the narrative will take them. Then there’s the pleasure of the plot itself, watching ...

There are a number of Jewish festivals that take place throughout the year, with Simchat Torah known as the most joyous holidays of the event calendar. The day celebrates the Jewish love for the ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Want to dance with Jewish tradition but don’t know the steps? Ask Simchat Torah to dance. Not a conventional dancer, it’s a star partner who will drag you off the sidelines and ...

At a Chassidic minyan where I regularly hang out and sometimes teach, it’s Simchat Torah on every Shabbat and Yom Tov of the year. It all takes place in a karate dojo on Pico Boulevard. Which is a ...

There are two holidays during our year on which we celebrate the Torah, Simchat Torah and Shavuot. And although the idea of “celebrating the Torah” might be the same, the way in which we do it is very ...

Dedicated to the memory of my mother, Dr Hana Pinner z”l, who passed away on Motzaei Shmini Atzeret, 23rd Tishrei 5767 (15th October 2006). Yehi zichrah baruch. Simchat Torah: the day we celebrate the ...

Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again. The Jewish holiday known as Simchat Torah, ...