NEWHALL TEMPLE TO CELEBRATE ANNUAL CYCLE OF READING OUT THE TORAH SCROLL.Byline: Daily News Temple Beth Ami will conduct its annual Simchat Torah celebration during Friday's 8 p.m. Shabbat services. Simchat Torah marks the end of the annual reading of the Torah scroll To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window. Scrolling implies continuous and smooth movement, a line, character or pixel at a time, as if the data were on a paper scroll being rolled behind the screen. See auto scroll. . On Simchat Torah, members read Deuteronomy, the final words of the last of the Torah scroll, and immediately follow by reading the beginning of the first book, Genesis. The entire Torah is read, in weekly portions, over a year. An unusual Temple Beth Ami custom is to unroll the entire Torah scroll as the congregation forms a huge circle, a symbol that Jewish teaching is unending. The crowd holds up the unrolled scroll, the rabbi walks around the circle and points out the highlights of the Torah such as the Ten Commandments Ten Commandments or Decalogue [Gr.,=ten words], in the Bible, the summary of divine law given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They have a paramount place in the ethical system in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. and parting of the Red Sea parting of the Red Sea God divides the waters for Israelites’ flight. [O.T.: Exodus 14:21–29] See : Escape parting of the Red Sea divinely aided, Moses parts the waters for an Israelite escape. [O.T. . The scroll is then re-rolled and the celebrants carry it and dance and sing. ``Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous joy·ous adj. Feeling or causing joy; joyful. See Synonyms at glad1. joy  ous·ly adv. of Jewish holidays
A Jewish holiday or Jewish Festival is a day or series of days observed by Jews as a holy or secular commemoration of an important event in Jewish history. as we celebrate God's giving us his laws,'' says Rick Shafarman of Temple Beth Ami. ``The ceremony is often compared to a wedding. Some Jewish scholars characterize Simchat Torah as a symbolic wedding of the Jewish people to the Torah.'' Temple Beth Ami is at 23023 Hilse Lane, Newhall. For information, call (805) 255-6410. |
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