Simchas Beis HaShoeva
Every night during the Succot holiday, dozens of synagogues and yeshivas throughout Jerusalem and other cities hold a Simchat Beit HaShoeva. This one took place in Toldos Aharon in Meah Shearim three years ago (I don't know how they got a camera in - it's absolutely prohibited and because of that, most of the videos you see are done on cell phones). I have been to Toldos Aharon several times, and you cannot imagine how much more crowded it actually is than it looks in this video. By the way, I believe that the video camera is on US time, which would explain why towards the end, it gets less crowded - that's not 7:00 pm, it's 1:00 am.And yes, what you're seeing is men only.
Let's go to the videotape.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:25 AM
3 Comments:
Way back when I was in Yeshiva, I went Simchat Beit HaShoeva hopping with friends.
We went in to Toldos Aharon. The spirit was extremly intense.
I could have sworn we were in there for 15 minutes. My watch corrected me: it had been a little under 2 hours.
I don't know what happened to the time.
It was filmed from the balcony -- presumably the ladies' section.
They're anti-Zionist by reputation. But they don't seem averse to mixing it up with Jews who can only be religious Zionists as the kippot srugot are known in Israel.
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