Simhat Torah: Why Jews should look in the mirror now
This analysis of a midrashic text is obviously not intended as a comment on or opinion about the recent United States Supreme Court decision.
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This analysis of a midrashic text is obviously not intended as a comment on or opinion about the recent United States Supreme Court decision.
Rabbi Jonathan Porath didn’t make countless trips to Russia. He counted them – 175 trips from 1965 through 2019. The following is an excerpt from his book centered primarily on Simhat Torah.
The Torah actually specifies that joy is a foundation of Judaism.
Sukkot, a Jewish holiday associated with happiness and celebration, is about to end, and two asteroids are set to pass by Earth as it does on Hoshana Raba.
The historian Cecil Roth had a theory that Simhat Torah was modeled on a wedding, and that the festival's customs are derived from Jewish marriage.