Page 20 - The last day of Sukkot
We celebrate the last day of Sukkot in the kenasa this way:
After the worship of the twenty-second day of the seventh month, ie the eighth day of Sukkot , the Hazzan takes the Sefer Torah out of the Hekhal and he reads the parasha Vezot habrakha till the paragraph Vayaal Moshe, ie from 5M 33:1 till 5M 34:1.
After the Hazzan comes to the Torah (when the community are singing the song Kelil yofi atshili) a young man wears a tallit, this young man is called Khatan Vayaal חָתָן וַיַּעַל .
Khatan Vayaal reads from Vayaal Moshe till the end of the Torah, ie from 5M 34:1 till 5M 34:12, then takes the Sefer Torah in his arms and he steps aside.
The Hazzan takes another Sefer Torah from the Hekhal and when the community is singing Yedidi sim sevara and Yah lekha shira vetimra, comes to another young man wearing a tallit, this young man is known as Khatan Bereshiit חָתָן בְּרֵאשִׁית .
The Khatan Bereshiit reads the Sefer Torah from 1M 1:1 till 1M 2:4, also he takes the Sefer Torah in his arms and walks aside.
Meanwhile the Shamash stands in the middle of the kenasa near the small table known as Dukhan.
The Hazzan comes to the Hekhal, opens it and calls the oldest members of the community and gives them the Sefer Torahs. The Hazzan also holds a Sefer Torah.
Then all of them walk around the small table with the Scrolls and they sing songs of worship to God and songs thanking God for the Torah. The other members of the community gradually take the Scrolls from them and afterwards all of them walk around the table with the Sefer Torah seven times, then the Hazzan puts all the Sefer Torahs back in the Hekhal.
The Khatan Vayaal and the Khatan Bereshiit sit in armchairs with the Sefer Torahs and then we read the Haftora which is 1 Kings 8:54 till 1 Kings 8:66.
After the reading of the Haftorah the Hazzan takes the Sefer Torah from the Khatan Vayaal and the Khatan Bereshiit and he puts its back into the Hekhal, then we read prayers of thanks to God for the fact that we have survived in good health till this day and we bless the community; then worship ends and the believers go back to their homes.