Hakhel Ceremony

A Post-Destruction model of Jewish Identity: Reading and studying Torah as if our life depended on it.

Who, What, When and Where

Deuteronomy’s mitzvah of publicly reading the Torah on Sukkot every seven years appears in various forms in stories about King Josiah, King Agrippa, and Ezra the Scribe. The latter’s innovative ceremony served as the model for what became synagogue Torah-reading.