You will have to search - but if you search, you will find the consolation, the ever-so-subtle hint that Torah, Jewish ...

This poem was inspired on 10/27/24, a day after we celebrated the festival of Simhat Torah 5785, when we follow our annual conclusion of reading all the parshiot, chapters, of the Torah by ...

On the regular fast days (17th of Tammuz, 9th of Av morning, Tzom Gedaliah on the 3rd of Tishrei, 10th of Tevet, and the Fast of Esther) the Torah-reading is part of the aftermath of the golden calf.

Simchat Torah joyously marks the end of the annual cycle of readings from the Torah. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images. Likewise, the biblical scholar Baruch Schwartz calls attention to a prayer ...

JERUSALEM — I was chanting from the Torah in synagogue when the first siren went off.It was the morning of Simchat Torah, the holiday celebrating our commitment to read the entire Torah over the ...

That means it’s time to read the same book, the Torah, that we’ve read for thousands of years. But that’s the point, according to local rabbis from each denomination. Rabbi Ezra Cohen (Photo by Nachi ...

Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah reading.. The Torah is a central part of Judaism ...

Drisha introduced men and women Torah readings three years ago. Rabbi Silber says he introduced the mixed Torah reading to Drisha–and to U.S. audiences–after he returned to New York from a sabbatical ...

Chanting Torah from the bimah, the synagogue’s stage, is one of the few ceremonial roles available to laypeople. But it’s not easy. Jews have to be able to read Hebrew and then learn the ...

Team Torah member readings are not just limited to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (the day of Atonement which begins October 11), but members can read at services throughout the year.

On Simchat Torah, the scrolls that contain this literature are removed from the ark, the special place where they are kept at the front of the synagogue.While one or two scrolls are taken out during ...