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# It is praiseworthy to engage in the celebration of Simchat Torah with dancing and clapping as much as one is able. <Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 462. Mishna Brurah 669:11 Just as King David danced with all of his strength when the Aron was brought to Yerushalaim (Shmuel 2, 6, 14), so too have many great scholars and elders danced with all of their strength on Simchat Torah including the Arizal and the Gra.</ref> | # It is praiseworthy to engage in the celebration of Simchat Torah with dancing and clapping as much as one is able.<Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 462. Mishna Brurah 669:11 Just as King David danced with all of his strength when the Aron was brought to Yerushalaim (Shmuel 2, 6, 14), so too have many great scholars and elders danced with all of their strength on Simchat Torah including the Arizal and the Gra.</ref> | ||
# It is customary, by both the night and day of Simchat Torah, to remove all of the Torahs from the Aron and to sing songs and praises.<ref>Rama 669:1</ref> It is also customary to encircle the Bima (table where the Torah is read) with the Torahs just as is done with the [[lulav]] during [[Sukkot]] and [[Hoshana Rabba]].<ref>Rama 669:1</ref> | # It is customary, by both the night and day of Simchat Torah, to remove all of the Torahs from the Aron and to sing songs and praises.<ref>Rama 669:1</ref> It is also customary to encircle the Bima (table where the Torah is read) with the Torahs just as is done with the [[lulav]] during [[Sukkot]] and [[Hoshana Rabba]].<ref>Rama 669:1</ref> | ||
# In Israel, there is a minhag to do Hakafot the night of Motzei Simchat Torah.<ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 460</ref> | # In Israel, there is a minhag to do Hakafot the night of Motzei Simchat Torah.<ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 460</ref> | ||
# Even those who are strict about not dancing or clapping on [[Shabbat]] and [[Yom Tov]] all year round are lenient about dancing and clapping on Simchat Torah in order to give respect to the completion of Torah.<ref>Mishna Brurah 339:18, Nitei Gavriel ([[Sukkot]] 93:9), Chazon Ovadya p. 456-7, Magen Avraham 339:1, Chayei Adam 2:153, Beit Yosef 339. see also Yechave Daat 3:49</ref> However, playing musical instruments is absolutely forbidden on Simchat Torah, both in Israel and outside Israel.<ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 458</ref> | # Even those who are strict about not dancing or clapping on [[Shabbat]] and [[Yom Tov]] all year round are lenient about dancing and clapping on Simchat Torah in order to give respect to the completion of Torah.<ref>Mishna Brurah 339:18, Nitei Gavriel ([[Sukkot]] 93:9), Chazon Ovadya p. 456-7, Magen Avraham 339:1, Chayei Adam 2:153, Beit Yosef 339. see also Yechave Daat 3:49</ref> However, playing musical instruments is absolutely forbidden on Simchat Torah, both in Israel and outside Israel.<ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 458</ref> | ||
# In some shuls, the bima is encircled 3 times, while in other shuls the bima is encircled 7 times.<ref>Mishna Brurah 669:10</ref> | # In some shuls, the bima is encircled 3 times, while in other shuls the bima is encircled 7 times.<ref>Mishna Brurah 669:10</ref> | ||
# One should be careful not to give a Sefer Torah to a young child to dance with because he may drop it. <Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 463</ref> | # One should be careful not to give a Sefer Torah to a young child to dance with because he may drop it.<Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 463</ref> | ||
# Some say that having a person ride on someone else's shoulders is a bad minhag. <Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 463</ref> | # Some say that having a person ride on someone else's shoulders is a bad minhag.<Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 463</ref> | ||
# It is permitted for the elderly and the sick to sit between Hakafot but they should stand during the Hakafot and when the Sifrei Torah are being returned to the Heichal. Healthy people should stand during the entire duration of Hakafot until the Sifrei Torah are returned to the Heichal. <ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 465, Yechave Daat 6:42<br /> | # It is permitted for the elderly and the sick to sit between Hakafot but they should stand during the Hakafot and when the Sifrei Torah are being returned to the Heichal. Healthy people should stand during the entire duration of Hakafot until the Sifrei Torah are returned to the Heichal.<ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 465, Yechave Daat 6:42<br /> | ||
* Orchot Rabbeinu pg. 309 says that the Chazon Ish would only sit if he was holding a sefer torah. | *Orchot Rabbeinu pg. 309 says that the Chazon Ish would only sit if he was holding a sefer torah. | ||
* Aruch | *Aruch Hashulchan YD 282:5 is lenient between hakafot, and Chazon Ovadia only allows relying on this leniency for a sick or old person. | ||
* Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo Moadim Perek 12:Note 13 and Shalmei Moed pg. 174) brings two potential reasons to be lenient: | *Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo Moadim Perek 12:Note 13 and Shalmei Moed pg. 174) brings two potential reasons to be lenient: | ||
# Perhaps one only has to stand for a torah in transit when it is being transported to a definitive place. However, if it is just being circled endlessly and aimlessly for dancing then it is not “in transit.” This is also brought in Bitzel Hachochma 5:139 and Teshuvot Vihanhagot 2:319 | #Perhaps one only has to stand for a torah in transit when it is being transported to a definitive place. However, if it is just being circled endlessly and aimlessly for dancing then it is not “in transit.” This is also brought in Bitzel Hachochma 5:139 and Teshuvot Vihanhagot 2:319 | ||
# Perhaps the circle of men dancing around the sifrei torah creates a mechitza which separates you from the torah and would allow you to sit. Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata Perek 24: note 125 quotes this as well. </ref> | #Perhaps the circle of men dancing around the sifrei torah creates a mechitza which separates you from the torah and would allow you to sit. Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata Perek 24: note 125 quotes this as well.</ref> | ||
# On Simchat Torah, it is permitted to move a Torah for the purpose of dancing or reading it somewhere else, even though this is not generally permitted.<ref>Nitei Gavriel ([[Sukkot]] 94:1), Chazon Ovadya p. 460, Yechave Daat 1:72</ref> | # On Simchat Torah, it is permitted to move a Torah for the purpose of dancing or reading it somewhere else, even though this is not generally permitted.<ref>Nitei Gavriel ([[Sukkot]] 94:1), Chazon Ovadya p. 460, Yechave Daat 1:72</ref> | ||
# Regarding the laws of davening and reciting brachot after drinking wine and other intoxicating beverages see [[Avoiding Davening After Drinking Intoxicating Beverages]]. | # Regarding the laws of davening and reciting brachot after drinking wine and other intoxicating beverages see [[Avoiding Davening After Drinking Intoxicating Beverages]]. | ||
