Simchat Torah 2024 History. October 2024 will mark the first simchat torah since the devastating events of october 7, 2023. Simchat torah for hebrew year 5785 begins at sundown on thursday, 24 october 2024 and ends at nightfall on friday, 25 october 2024.
7 when the alarm rang out across jerusalem, and the dancing with the torah was. Originating sometime in the medieval period, simchat torah celebrates the conclusion of one and beginning of another cycle of torah reading.