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Why do women dance at weddings, but not on Simchat Torah?

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It is a question my nineteen year old son brought up over Yom Tov, and my husband had a poignant answer.

At a wedding, the women dance around the bride.  The kallah is the focal point and women dance both to bring her joy and also to express their own joy in sharing her simcha.  When the bride stops dancing, typically, the women also take a break from the dancing until the bride returns to the floor.

On Simchat Torah, the Sefer Torah represents the kallah (for the men it is akin to the chasson/groom).  We dance with the precious Torah scrolls in celebration and reverence of their service as the foundation of the Jewish people, just as the bride represents the foundation of the Jewish home.  If she isn’t there to make it possible to perform the mitzvah of m’sameach ha’kallah, the women feel no purpose in dancing.



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