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Simchas Torah During CoronaVirus

By Gldmeier @gldmeier
I have been wondering what Simchas Torah will look lie in light of the lockdown and regulations and safety precautions.
Dancing at a distance? Will people hold Torah scrolls for the dancing, and pass them one to the other? the normal big kiddush or something smaller with pre-apportioned portions or nothing at all? will people go to shul? will we have short davenings instead of services until 2pm? will everyone get an aliya? big productions of chosson torah and chosson breishis? with smaller minyanim, even with everyone getting an aliya it should go quicker than in a shul with a full crowd like every year. 
I dont know what it will look like. It might just look like a nearly normal regular yomtov davening if things are scaled back and cut out. I guess we will wait and see, but Sichas Torah is really the one day that davening is very different than the davening of all other yomim tovim. The other Yomim Tovim are all just regular davening, with different tunes, additional piyutim, and all that but it is more or less pretty similar. Simchas Torah is very different. I wonder how it will feel and be experienced when cut down significantly.
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