The Secret to Jewish Resilience? We Hate Endings

There’s an unusual tradition on the holiday of Simchat Torah, after we complete the annual reading cycle of the Five Books of Moses. Instead of a celebration for a job well done, we open a second Torah scroll and go right to the beginning of the very first Torah portion of Genesis.

We end, but we don’t really end. We begin anew.

We complete, but we also continue.

Jews hate endings.

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