Groom of Genesis (Groom of the Torah)/ Hatan Breshit (a person called to the reading of the Law, in the synagogue, for the portion of Genesis)/ (Hatan Torah-for the reading of the last portion of the Law)

The person who was privileged to ascend to the Torah on the holiday of 'Shimchat Torah' in the section that concludes the reading of the Torah is called the 'Torah groom', and the one who ascends to the Torah in the section of Bereshit is called the 'Torah groom' (originally, the meaning was to say 'seal' the Torah, as if to say, the one who seals the Torah, completes its reading. The 'Torah groom' was the one who ascends To the Torah in the last section).

("And in the joy of the Torah, a priest or a Levite, a Torah groom, or a groom, at the head" - Mordecai Masekhet Gettin, Chapter 5, the old man, the sign of the sign, and so on: "And they shall read in the name of the Torah groom, and in the name of the groom, at the head, and in the place of the Holkin, with them, the reckoning of the congregation" - Yam Shel Shlomo Masekhet Gettin, Chapter 5, and so on: "And you are not You know that on 'Shimchat Torah', the holiday of the completion of the Torah, they open the door to its closing. They say 'in the eyes of all Israel' and open it from the hand of 'Breashit Bara'. The end is established at the beginning, and it is customary to marry the Torah - a bridegroom in the beginning" - Bialik/ and Mendelei Zaken, and so: "He kept the matter in his heart until 'Shabbat in the beginning'. And in the sermon that was honored to be carried by the many who honored him as one of the two 'bridegrooms' of the joy of the Torah - he was chosen as the 'bridegroom of the Torah'" - ​​H. Beer/ To the Place Where the Spirit Goes, 106)

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