Hasidim Dance Simchat Beit HaShoeivah

Hasidim Dance Simchat Beit HaShoeivah When the Temple in Jerusalem stood, a unique service was performed every morning throughout the Sukkot holiday: the Nisuch ha-Mayim (lit. “Pouring of the water“) or Water Libation Ceremony. According to the Talmud, Sukkot is the time of year in which God judges the world for rainfall; therefore this ceremony, like the taking of the Four Species, invokes God’s blessing for rain in its proper time. The water for the libation ceremony was drawn from the Pool of Siloam