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In this episode of Common Faith, we dive into the meaning of Simchat Torah—the joyful festival that celebrates completing the annual Torah reading cycle. We are also joined by Reverend A.R. Bernard, founder of the Christian Cultural Center and one of New York’s most influential faith leaders. Reverend Bernard shares his remarkable spiritual journey—from banking to ministry, Catholicism to Protestantism, and even a period in the Nation of Islam—while reflecting on the power of scripture, curiosit

In these days of Hoshana Rabbah and Simchat Torah, we raise our voices in supplication and song, and with renewed hearts, we celebrate deliverance. On Hoshana Rabbah, the “great day of supplication,” we circle the bimah with the Torah and lulav, crying “Hoshana! Hoshana!” as we lift our prayers upward. It is the final moment of the closing of the heavenly gates, a last chance to amend, to hope, to plead for mercy. Then comes Simchat Torah, the joyous celebration when we complete the Torah cycle,