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    Simchat Torah (שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה‎, lit., "Torah celebration", Ashkenazi: Simchas Torah), also spelled Simhat Torah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates...
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    Congregation Beit Simchat Torah ("CBST") is a non-denominational progressive Jewish synagogue located at 130 West 30th Street, in the Midtown Manhattan...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    shel galuyot (literally, "Second Yom Tov of the Diaspora")—including Simchat Torah—are also included in this grouping. Colloquially, Yom Kippur, a biblically...
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    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...
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    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...
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    follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar,...
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  • 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...
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  • 25: Sukkot* Saturday, October 2: Shemini Atzeret* Sunday, October 3: Simchat Torah* Saturday, December 4: Hanukkah Saturday, January 22: Tu Bishvat Tuesday...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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:...
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    festivals running through Sukkot which end on Shemini Atzeret in Israel and Simchat Torah everywhere else. Rosh Hashanah is a two-day observance and celebration...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    / Feast of Trumpets (TX, NY, religious) Shemini Atzeret (religious) Simchat Torah (religious) Vijaya Dashami (religious) Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Manhattan, New York City. Nixon and her family attend Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue. Nixon has received numerous awards including two...
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    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...
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    10, 2017. "Chol Hamoed – the "Intermediate" Festival Days – Sukkot & Simchat Torah". Archived from the original on April 6, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2020...
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    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...
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    result". In 2013, Sharon Kleinbaum, the senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York, said that polyamory is a choice that does not preclude...
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    Jewish prayer book. Prayer, as a "service of the heart," is in principle a Torah-based commandment. It is mandatory for Jewish women and men. However, the...
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    tradition. A version called holishkes is traditionally eaten by Jews on Simchat Torah. Recipes vary depending on region; northern Poles prefer a savory sauce...
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