Simhat Torah

Simhat Torah 5774 – Gilayon #818

SHABBAT SHALOM (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Simhat Tora – Parshat Bereishit And from the ground the lord god caused to grow Every tree that was pleasing to the sight And good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the Garden and the tree of knowledge of good and bad (Bereishit 2:9)   And from the ground his nourishment would come easy; Pleasing to the sight makes him happy and broadens his heart to prepare him for the abundance of knowledge he is about to...

Simhat Torah 5773 – Gilayon #768

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Simhat Tora Be happy and rejoice on simchat torah – on the difference between SASSON AND SIMCHA   Simcha occurs with the advent of something which makes one happy; sasson is present when that 'something' reaches its full and successful completion, as is written "Glad as they go forth, exultant as they return" (Artscroll translation). When they go forth to illumine the...

Simhat Torah 5771 – Gilayon #670

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Simhat Tora The Torah that Moses commanded us is a legacy for the congregation of Jacob. (Devarim 33:4)   And it can be said that the word moreshet – "legacy" – refers to the Land of Israel, and then the verse's meaning will be that it is thanks to the Torah commanded to us by Moses that the Land of which the Torah writes, and I will give it to you as a legacy, I am the Lord...

Simhat Torah 5769 – Gilayon #572

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Simhat Tora AND THIS IS THE TORAH WHICH MOSES SET BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. (Devarim 4:44)   R. Yehoshua ben Levi said: What is the meaning of the verse, And this is the Torah which Moses set before the children of Israel? If one is worthy – it will be an elixir of life for him, if one is unworthy – it will be an elixir of death for him. This is as...

Simhat Torah 5766 – Gilayon #417

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Simhat Tora MOSES WENT UP FROM THE STEPPES OF MOAB TO MOUNT NEBO, TO THE SUMMIT OF PISGAH, OPPOSITE JERICHO, AND THE LORD SHOWED HIM THE WHOLE LAND; GILEAD AS FAR AS DAN… AND THE LORD SAID TO HIM, "THIS IS THE LAND OF WHICH I SWORE TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, SAYING, ‘I WILL ASSIGN IT TO YOUR OFFSPRING.' I HAVE LET YOU SEE IT WITH YOUR OWN EYES, BUT YOU SHALL NOT CROSS THERE....

Simhat Torah 5764 – Gilayon #312

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Simhat Tora "… WHO HAS KEPT US ALIVE, AND SUSTAINED US THROUGH OUR PURE AWE OF HIM, AND HAS BROUGHT US TO REJOICE IN THE REJOICING OF THE TORAH THAT CHEERS THE HEART AND ENLIGHTENS THE EYES, BRINGS HAPPINESS TO THOSE WHO WALK IN THE GOOD AND RIGHT PATH, LENGTHENS DAYS AND ADDS STRENGTH TO THOSE WHO LOVE IT AND OBSERVE IT— ITS COMMANDS AND ITS WARNINGS— TO THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN TORAH AND GUARD IT...

Simhat Torah 5763 – Gilayon #257

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Simhat Tora "Rejoice and Be Happy on Simchat Torah" – On the Difference Between Joy (Sasson) and Happiness (Simcha)   Simcha is present on the occasion of the beginning or the renewal of something which makes man happy; sasson is present when that something reaches positive completion, as per "Happy in their going out, and rejoicing upon arrival" – when they go out to shed light upon the earth, they are happy; when they reach the west, having completed their beneficial activity, they...