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Strange and Stranger: Reading Torah’s end and beginning on Simchat Torah

Elsie Stern, Ph.D., upacks what she describes as the downright strangness of Torah's conclusion and beggining, in that order.

The Expansiveness of the Unwritten: Torah as an Invitation to Imagine

Rabbi and sofered Rec Richman writes that Simkhat Torah is a celebration of our tradition’s endless invitation to keep imagining.

Simchat Torah: Returning to the Torah, Again and Again

On Simchat Torah we celebrate the Torah. We celebrate reaching the end, reciting the last words in Deuteronomy, which we follow by turning back to the beginning and reciting the first words in Genesis.

Dancing With Torah

"The hidden sparks / That are released / When I dare / To listen To dance / in your arms"

Holding Torah in Our Hands

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New Rituals for Simchat Torah

New ideas for celebrating Simchat Torah

Each A Torah

"We are each a Torah / to be embraced and celebrated..."

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