October 7th Simchat Torah & Shabbat: Last Time This Happened…It Was Bad. How Do We Stop It?

October 7 and Simchat Torah became painfully linked. Rabbi Yitzchak Botton asks one of the hardest questions: Where was G-d on October 7 — and what must change before division puts us in danger again? In this powerful Simchat Torah message, Rabbi Botton looks at the deeper meaning of dancing in a circle around the Torah. Everyone stands the same distance from the center. Everyone is equal. And for Rabbi Botton, that circle carries an urgent lesson about Jewish unity.