Simchat Torah 45 articles

From dancing through Hakafot to Kol HaNearim, the minhagim of Simchat Torah all contribute to our celebration of completing the Torah in different ways. Our director of Torah and Halacha Initiatives,...

Why Do We Wait So Long to Celebrate the Torah? Why do we rejoice over the Torah at this holiday and not on Shavuot, the holiday seemingly more appropriate? A Holocaust...

OU Women’s Initiative Torah Educator Midway through Sefirat Haomer (the counting of the weeks between Pesach and Shavuot), we chatted with OU Women’s Initiative Torah Educator CB Neugroschl ahead of Shavuot...

L’ilui nishmas Beila d’Raisia bas Baruch Halevi and lirefuah shleima Miriam Aidel bas Sara Malka Also: Tehillim 19 and the Essence of Simchas Torah – Part 1 here The Answer to Life, The Universe, and...

Delivered 27 Cheshvan 5785 / October 29, 2024

Simchat Torah is often peak candy season in our shuls. The question arises – does one make a bracha achrona on candy? OU Kosher COO Rabbi Moshe Elefant has the answer:

From the book series Laws of the Holidays by Rabbi Yonatan Nacson; used with permission. Sitting in the Sukkah on the Seventh Day of Sukkot One may not take down his...

What is Shemini Atzeres (or Shemini Atzeret), you ask? Well, Pesach (Passover) has days of yom tov (Festivals, with Sabbath-like restrictions on labor) at both the beginning and the end. Technically...

Delivered at the OU Israel Center, 12 Tishrei 5784 / September 27, 2023 Rabbi Manning’s series for 2023 has been sponsored לעילוי נשמת ברנה בת בנדית וזליג בן קלמן