Laws of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah by Rabbi Kaplowitz
Posted on October 8, 2009
Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah is ambiguous holiday. On the one hand, it is the completion of Sukkot and thus called “the 8th day.” Yet the rabbis also identify it as a regel bifnei atzmo – its own independent holiday. In the Diaspora, where we observe two days of Yom Tov, Simchat Torah has taken on its own identity as […]