Masses in the Simchat Torah March to the Kotel on the Night of the Holiday with the Esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Simchat Torah 5779, in all Jewish communities, people gather to celebrate the completion of the Torah and its renewal with dances and hakafot together with the Torah scrolls. The Shuvu Banim community also gathered around the Torah scrolls, and around the holy Torah scroll, the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a. Immediately after the holiday's evening prayer, Rav Berland shlit"a began the sacred journey of the hakafot, as he walked kilometers alongside the masses through the streets of the holy city.

The scene was magnificent, thousands of chassidim and the people of Israel dancing with the Torah scrolls in the streets of Jerusalem, with the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a proudly leading the procession. Rav Berland shlit"a led everyone to the plaza of the Western Wall, where they continued the Simchat Torah hakafot straight into the night.

[caption id="attachment_13755" align="alignnone" width="510"] The map showing the route of the procession of the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a on the night of Simchat Torah 5779[/caption] Photographed by a non-Jew courtesy of Nohi Weiss