{"id":943,"date":"2020-10-10T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T08:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=943"},"modified":"2020-09-30T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T11:17:34","slug":"simchat-torah-10-11-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/10\/10\/simchat-torah-10-11-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Simchat Torah 10-11 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simchat Torah<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Simhat Torah<\/strong>\u00a0is 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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-946 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/Solomon_Alexander_Hart_-_The_Feast_of_the_Rejoicing_of_the_Law_at_the_Synagogue_in_Leghorn_Italy_-_Google_Art_Project-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/Solomon_Alexander_Hart_-_The_Feast_of_the_Rejoicing_of_the_Law_at_the_Synagogue_in_Leghorn_Italy_-_Google_Art_Project-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/Solomon_Alexander_Hart_-_The_Feast_of_the_Rejoicing_of_the_Law_at_the_Synagogue_in_Leghorn_Italy_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-944 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/simchat-torah-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/simchat-torah-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/simchat-torah.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simchat Torah\u00a0or\u00a0Simhat Torah\u00a0is 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 of year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/10\/10\/simchat-torah-10-11-october\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simchat Torah 10-11 October&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration","category-commemorative-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}