Simchat Torah (שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה, lit., "Torah celebration", Ashkenazi: Simchas Torah), also spelled Simhat Torah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates...
20 KB (2,527 words) - 22:36, 25 March 2024
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah ("CBST") is a non-denominational progressive Jewish synagogue located at 130 West 30th Street, in the Midtown Manhattan...
18 KB (1,309 words) - 15:40, 4 May 2024
connected to the day are read. Many Jews observe an annual holiday, Simchat Torah, to celebrate the completion of the year's cycle of readings. [further...
41 KB (5,428 words) - 20:11, 14 March 2024
Shemini Atzeret (section Simchat Torah)
to which practices of each holiday are to apply. The celebration of Simchat Torah is the most distinctive feature of the holiday, but it is a later rabbinical...
35 KB (4,147 words) - 03:34, 6 May 2024
Hakafot (section On Simchat Torah)
species on each of the seven days of the holiday. On Simchat Torah, the custom is to take the Torah scrolls out of the Ark and to encircle the reader’s...
10 KB (1,642 words) - 22:41, 26 February 2022
Sukkot (section Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah)
of Israel, two days in the diaspora, where the second day is called Simchat Torah). Shemini Atzeret coincides with the eighth day of Sukkot outside the...
29 KB (2,929 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2024
2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel (redirect from Simchat Torah Massacre)
they are referred to as Black Saturday (Hebrew: השבת השחורה) or the Simchat Torah Massacre (הטבח בשמחת תורה), and internationally as the 7 October attack...
284 KB (22,334 words) - 13:24, 21 May 2024
Israel–Hamas war (redirect from Simchat Torah War)
as its capital. The attack took place during the Jewish holidays of Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret on Shabbat, and one day after the 50th anniversary...
365 KB (34,032 words) - 08:34, 22 May 2024
shel galuyot (literally, "Second Yom Tov of the Diaspora")—including Simchat Torah—are also included in this grouping. Colloquially, Yom Kippur, a biblically...
104 KB (12,877 words) - 15:07, 16 May 2024
25: Sukkot* Saturday, October 2: Shemini Atzeret* Sunday, October 3: Simchat Torah* Saturday, December 4: Hanukkah Saturday, January 22: Tu Bishvat Tuesday...
33 KB (3,845 words) - 13:13, 6 May 2024