simcha

Noun

1. joy
   • Each and every one of these blessings is a reason to be full of simcha. - 2001, Moshe Goldberger, 100 Brachos: Counting Your Blessings 100 Times a Day, The Judaica Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:
   • The return to a meaningful and vibrant Judaism, he felt, must contain an ingredient too long denied it. This ingredient was simcha (joy), and it became the cornerstone of the Hasidic movement. - 2017, Velvel Pasternak,...
2. a celebration
   • After the wedding, I received a letter from the bride and her family with profuse thanks for enabling them and the Jewish community of Sheboygan to witness and participate in a "wonderful, traditional simcha" - 2017,...
   • In 1956, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, forbade any Bat Mitzvah celebration in a synagogue even at night, but allowed a simḥah at home; it's not a Seudat Mitzvah, just a birthday party. - 2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and...