Sim'hat Torah closes the autumn festival season that begins with Sukkot. It celebrates completing the yearly cycle of Torah readings and beginning it again from Bereshit. Its high point is the hakafot: seven joyful processions with the Torah scrolls around the teba, each accompanied by its own piyutim and songs.
[Tangier customs: Ariel to add]
Songs & Piyutim
Shokhanet BaSade · Shojanet BaSade – Sim'hat Torah, Hakafa 4
Shokhanet BaSade (שוכנת בשדה), a piyut by Rabbi Shelomo Ibn Gabirol (c. 1021 – c. 1058), poet and philosopher of Al-Andalus. It is sung for the fourth hakafa of Sim'hat Torah in the North Moroccan (Tangier) Judeo-Spanish tradition. Sung by Rabbi Moshe Nahon.
Shojanet BaSade (שוכנת בשדה), piyut escrito por Rabbi Shelomo Ibn Gabirol (c. 1021 – c. 1058), poeta y filósofo de Al-Ándalus. Se canta en la cuarta hakafá de Sim'hat Torá, según la tradición judeo-española del norte de Marruecos (Tánger). Interpretado por el Rabino Moshe Nahon.