{"id":1693,"date":"2021-09-28T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:50:59","slug":"simchat-torah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/09\/28\/simchat-torah\/","title":{"rendered":"Simchat Torah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/Solomon_Alexander_Hart_-_The_Feast_of_the_Rejoicing_of_the_Law_at_the_Synagogue_in_Leghorn_Italy_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/Solomon_Alexander_Hart_-_The_Feast_of_the_Rejoicing_of_the_Law_at_the_Synagogue_in_Leghorn_Italy_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 330w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/Solomon_Alexander_Hart_-_The_Feast_of_the_Rejoicing_of_the_Law_at_the_Synagogue_in_Leghorn_Italy_-_Google_Art_Project-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Simchat Torah<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Simhat Torah<\/strong>\u00a0(28-29 September) is a Jewish holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main celebrations of Simchat Torah take place in the synagogue\u00a0during evening and morning services. In Orthodox,\u00a0as well as many conservative\u00a0congregations, this is the only time of year on which the Torah scrolls are taken out of the ark and read at night. In the morning, the last parashah of Deuteronomy and the first parashah of Genesis are read in the synagogue. On each occasion, when the ark is opened, the worshippers leave their seats to dance and sing with the Torah scrolls in a joyous celebration that can last for several hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"359\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/celebration.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/celebration.jpg 359w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/celebration-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 85vw, 359px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simchat Torah\u00a0or\u00a0Simhat Torah\u00a0(28-29 September) is a Jewish holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle. The main celebrations of Simchat Torah take place in the synagogue\u00a0during evening and morning services. In Orthodox,\u00a0as well as many conservative\u00a0congregations, this is the only time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/09\/28\/simchat-torah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simchat Torah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}