Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah, Top Ten Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah Facts
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- Shemini Atzeret means “The Assembly of the Eighth Day.”
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- There is a difference of opinion in the Talmud as to whether Shemini Atzeret is the eighth day of Sukkot or an independent festival of its own.
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- Some Jews in the Diaspora eat in the sukka on Shemini Atzeret, but do not make the berakha of “Leishev BaSukka.”
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- In Israel, Shemini Atzeret and Simḥat Torah are celebrated on the same day.
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- We begin praying for rain on Shemini Atzeret with the special Tefillat Geshem (Prayer for Rain) said during Musaf. This is reflected in the addition of the line “Mashiv haruaḥ umorid hagashem” (“He makes the wind blow and the rain fall”) said in our private Amida on weekdays, from Shemini Atzeret until Pesaḥ.
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- The Ḥazan who leads the Geshem prayer wears a white kittel just like on Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, because we pray for a favourable judgement for the world’s rain in the coming year.
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- Some communities have the custom to read from the Torah on Simḥat Torah night. This is the only time in the year when the Torah is read publicly at night.
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- On Simḥat Torah we dance around the shul bima seven times, carrying the Torah scrolls as we go. These circuits are called Hakafot.
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- Many communities give every adult male an aliya laTorah (calling them to the reading of the Torah), which means the last part of the Torah is read many times over.
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- It is a special honour to be chosen to be the Ḥatan Torah who completes the year’s cycle, and to be chosen as the Ḥatan Bereshit, the first person called for the new cycle.