Tu B’Av is meant to feel Jewish Valentine’s day. But really, a single day in order to satisfy the next spouse – otherwise him or her, otherwise your existing partner’s old boyfriend, otherwise some one you have had an effective smash toward – was Simchat Torah.
The final day of the new autumn Jewish holidays, Simchat Torah scratches the conclusion this new annual stage out of Torah readings known as parsha. Congregations look at the history part of Deuteronomy, then go back to the beginning of Genesis.
But part of the affair of your parsha years boasts vocal and you may marching the new Torah within the synagogue when you look at the a generally raucous, ecstatic moving that can spill onto the streets. (Addititionally there is always loads of booze.) It’s contagious and you will happy, together with finest place to see your beshert.
The vacation is, in its most old-fashioned roots, from the love – out of Torah, plus out-of area and of the Jewish people.