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... 17 KB (1,296 words) - 12:32, 21 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) - 04:15, 23 April 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 |
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) - 01:32, 12 April 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 |
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... 286 KB (22,328 words) - 20:08, 25 April 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... 582 KB (56,125 words) - 13:18, 27 April 2024 |
follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar,... 12 KB (863 words) - 20:53, 23 March 2024 |
avoid embarrassing those who were unable to read the Torah script (Shabbat 11a). On Simchat Torah, the tradition is that all members of the congregation... 11 KB (1,492 words) - 08:44, 7 October 2023 |
25: Sukkot* Saturday, October 2: Shemini Atzeret* Sunday, October 3: Simchat Torah* Saturday, December 4: Hanukkah Saturday, January 22: Tu Bishvat Tuesday... 33 KB (3,816 words) - 18:56, 24 April 2024 |
Yom Kippur (section In the Torah) Moses announced to the people that they had been forgiven; as a result the Torah fixed this date as a permanent holiday of forgiveness. The new covenant... 66 KB (7,661 words) - 22:11, 5 April 2024 |
Holishkes (category Simchat Torah) symbolize a bountiful harvest, and on Simchat Torah because two stuffed cabbage rolls placed side by side resemble Torah scrolls. Jews in the Russian Empire... 3 KB (262 words) - 07:50, 15 March 2024 |
surprise attack on Israel on the 22nd of Tishrei 5784, the holiday of Simchat Torah, October 7, 2023, and the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces who... 7 KB (795 words) - 18:22, 10 April 2024 |
Atzeret, Simchat Torah can never fall on Shabbat, and there is no Mincha reading for Simchat Torah. The individual readings for Simchat Torah are as follows:... 46 KB (6,851 words) - 21:34, 6 December 2023 |
the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, it is customary to call all the boys (in some synagogues, all the children) to the Torah reading and for the whole... 55 KB (3,468 words) - 00:26, 18 April 2024 |
Simchat Torah never occurs on Saturday.) In communities where the Torah is read a Maariv on Simchat Torah, this is the only occurrence of the Torah being... 18 KB (2,542 words) - 19:18, 8 April 2024 |
Mussaf (section Simchat Torah) holidays during the chazzan's repetition only during Mussaf. But on Simchat Torah, it is recited during Shacharit. This is because there is a tradition... 13 KB (1,567 words) - 03:43, 16 March 2024 |
/ Feast of Trumpets (TX, NY, religious) Shemini Atzeret (religious) Simchat Torah (religious) Vijaya Dashami (religious) Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement... 14 KB (1,227 words) - 02:12, 16 April 2024 |
Judaism (section Torah readings) Jews begin to pray for rain and Simchat Torah, "Rejoicing of the Torah", a holiday which marks reaching the end of the Torah reading cycle and beginning all... 232 KB (25,864 words) - 17:22, 27 April 2024 |
who serves as spiritual leader of New York City's Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. She has been an active campaigner for human rights and civil marriage... 17 KB (1,803 words) - 11:06, 20 March 2024 |
observe an annual holiday, Simchat Torah, to celebrate the completion and new start of the year's cycle of readings. Torah scrolls are often dressed with... 71 KB (8,602 words) - 16:22, 22 April 2024 |
Teiglach (category Simchat Torah) are a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish treat for Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, and Purim. Teiglach date back to the times of the Romans who made strips... 4 KB (262 words) - 06:02, 27 April 2024 |