NOUN
- (Judaism) a Jewish holy day celebrated on the 22nd or 23rd of Tishri to celebrate the completion of the annual cycle of readings of the Torah
How To Use Simhat Torah In A Sentence
- Of course, each Simhat Torah flag has an apple and candle, customary among East European Jewry. Menachem Wecker: Mark Podwal's New Jewish Calendar (PHOTO)
- Many groups progressed to conducting full-fledged Simhat Torah services for women only — services in which women read the Torah portion aloud and gave aliyyot to every woman present. Women's Tefillah Movement.
- On the holiday of Simhat Torah we even dance with the Torah, celebrating all the words wrapped inside. THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE
- Jews have always danced with the Torah scrolls in processionals on the holiday of Simhat Torah, and there are movement processionals on other holidays, as well as during the weekly Sabbath services. Dance Performance in the United States.
- In 2000 a separate Torah reading was held for women on Simhat Torah and in 2001 the WTG also read the Megillah on Purim. Australia: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
- Simhat Torah had proved to be a particularly frustrating experience for Orthodox women as all of its customs and celebrations are tied to the synagogue and formal prayer. Women's Tefillah Movement.
- It was Simhat Torah, and the service was crowded, no doubt as crowded as those synagogues in Germany in 1936 or in Iran in our own time. The truth about Jews in Iran....
- From Selihot through Simhat Torah, we weave a picture of the world as we want it to be, as we hope it will be. New Jersey Jewish News
