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Torah Scrolls
Tishrei
is a month of holidays, and the last one is
Simchat Torah
(“Rejoicing of Torah”). On this day we celebrate
having reached
the end of the reading of the Torah,
and then we begin reading it again. People praying in the synagogue take out all of the Torah scrolls from the Ark and dance with them. The Photograph Collection of the CZA includes beautiful and unique photographs of Torah scrolls, which, it turns out, were not taken out from the Ark only for religious reasons. Below is a selection of pictures of Torah scrolls at different times in the history of the Jews in the 20
th
century.
A Torah scroll donated to a synagogue in the Old City
A prayer of Jewish soldiers in Egypt, 1943
Israel's ambassador gives a Torah scroll to the US president
Taking out the Torah, synagogue in Ambobar
A Torah scroll the community of Vilnius gave to Herzl
A Torah scroll the Yishuv sent to King George the 5th
A ceremony of bringing A Torah scroll to Betar training ship
Residents of Rehovot gives to Buffs soldiers a Torah scroll
A Torah scroll from 1905 delivered to Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
A prayer in the synagogue of Tripoli after its liberation
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