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Want to hear about my Simchat Torah? I got to dance with my friend Hillel.

He really loves Torahs, which suits me just fine. On Shemini Atzeret afternoon, Hillel helped me change the Torah covers - they take off their special white High Holy dresses and go back into their workaday velvets - and on Simchat Torah I got to dance with Torah on one arm and Hillel on the other. I think that was probably the best bit of my Succot. It was great.

The rest of the time: mostly logistics; I'm Torah Girl at my shul, and it's my job to make sure the Torahs are all a) rolled to the right places b) in the right locations. Making sure the lightest Torahs are upstairs for the dancing, but also that the ones we actually read from are accessible and not mixed up, and that the Holocaust ones are in the right place for the memorial service, and so on, and so forth; quite a lot of work. Definitely had sore feet by the end of it all.

Hillel is five, by the way. Just in case you'd got all disappointed thinking I'd gone and got coupled up.