Word.ws English Dictionary

Hatan Torah

Hatan Torah noun: the person who reads the final aliyah of the Torah on Simchat Torah.

Noun

Hatan Torah

  1. The person who reads the final aliyah of the Torah on Simchat Torah.
    • A poetic passage recited in the Ashkenazic tradition summoning the Hatan Torah ("Bridegroom of the Torah") to the concluding portion of the Torah (Deut. 33:27-29, 34:1-12)1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 237

Questions about Hatan Torah

What does Hatan Torah mean?
Hatan Torah means the person who reads the final aliyah of the Torah on Simchat Torah.
What part of speech is Hatan Torah?
Hatan Torah is a noun.

Words near Hatan Torah in the dictionary

  1. hatakis
  2. Hatala
  3. Hatalas
  4. Hatami
  5. Hatamis
  6. Hatan Torah
  7. Hatas
  8. Hataway
  9. Hataways
  10. Hatay
  11. hatband

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hatan Torah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hatan Torah.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hatan_torah. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.