Simchat Torah is unique - it's the only (major) festival that Jews have created for themselves. We'll explore how it has evolved, and why its current incarnation provides the perfect symbolic expression for a unique understanding of divine revelation.

Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz received her doctorate from University College London in 2016, and Orthodox rabbinical ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, New York, in June 2021.  She has been an affiliated or associated lecturer or research fellow at the universities of Manchester, Cambridge, Oxford, SOAS, King's College London, and Vassar College in New York State. She is also a Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies, and has presented at Limmud in the UK, the Netherlands, and South Africa. Her first book is Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women, which was published in 2021 by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.  She recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Manchester, during which she researched her upcoming book on the history and development of Limmud.