The entire Torah is read over the course of each year, in consecutive portions every week. These are the Torah readings.
On Simchat Torah, there are special prayers and Torah-readings. Work is forbidden, and festive maels are held. It is customary to dance in the synagogue with the Torah scrolls.
They are the first and last readings of the Torah.
They are the first and last readings of the Torah.
Prayer and Torah-readings. Other activities may sometimes be held: Torah-study, communal meetings, bar/bat mitzvas, etc.
There was a time when the Jews were subjected to a persecution which included a decree that they not read from the Torah. In order that the weekly Torah readings not fall into disuse, the Sages instituted a custom to read a portion from the prophets that was a similar subject to each week's Torah reading.
The Torah is read in synagogue more than two hundred times each year, not just on Passover.
"La'ahSOKE b'divRAY toRAH" = "to be involved/occupied with words of Torah"
The word 'Torah' literally means 'teachings'.
Torah (תורה) is the hebrew word for "instruction".
The Torah is divided into weekly readings, called "parshas". One system divides the text so the entire Torah is read in one year, another system is based on a three-year cycle. So at least in theory, all portions are read in equal amounts.
It means to observe the Torah's laws.
Diver Torah, plural for a davar Torah, is a lesson given by someone to a group of people that is related to the section of the Torah being read that week