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Simchat Torah is a time for rejoicing. However you interpret our sacred text, celebrating the Torah’s centrality to the evolving civilization of the Jewish people is important.

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“The hidden sparks / That are released / When I dare / To listen To dance / in your arms”
“We are each a Torah / to be embraced and celebrated…”
“Sing and dance in exaltation, / gift of wisdom; truths conferred.”
“those who dance as they hold as they dance through all life; those who reach up from a wheelchair; out from a walker; or wobbling, out from a cane.”
“And still, here we are again / clutching to an ancient book / that has traveled through time / from bitterness to joy…”
“My fingers reached out, / my heart longed…”
“Evening and morning, ritual and rite, / making order out of chaos”

“Have I authored the stories of my Life?”

“Bejeweled crown removed / yet never cast aside.”

Now that there is to be rejoicing / Torah speaks to that

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