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Circling Back (Simchat Torah)

November 15, 2006 | By Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman

, Simchat Torah

Media Type(s): Torah Commentary

Textual Source: Deutoronomy, Numbers

This resource is part of the Torah Queeries collection.

The author explores the question of why Jews don’t read the book of Joshua as part of our worship service. Why does that Torah reject a tidy satisfying closure to its epic tale? Our human lives aren’t like a Hollywood fairytale, no matter how much we try to make them so. Life, like Torah, is a wandering journey in the wilderness, not a destination.

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