"I love your Word, O Lord!" -- so says the Psalmist expressing his heart felt devotion to the words of the Torah given to the people of Israel by the God of Israel. The Torah is celebrated by the Jewish people in every community around the world. The scroll is even housed in a specially built cabinet laid to rest in a prominent place in the synagogue.
To dedicate a new Torah scroll in a community synagogue is another opportunity to celebrate in the streets. Through the years of living in Jerusalem, I have seen these boistrous celebrations in our own neighbhorhood, and they resemble a Jewish wedding reception. The synagogue committee sends out an invitation to the neighbhorhood inviting them to participate in the celebration, posting it at the local grocery stores. Then, a couple of hours prior to the ceremony, a small car with a loud speaker makes his way through the narrow streets announcing the time and place. The crowds gather. The residents - young and old - link arm in arm and begin their celebrative Israeli line dance up the street behind the car with the loud speaker as the preceed the newly devoted Torah scroll, leading the way to its new home in local the Synagogue.
A table of refreshments has been laid for the guests, and for the next 2 hours, the ear piercing music and dancing in the streets continues . . . inviting the neighbhors to celebrate their new Torah scroll. It is awesome to watch and to see a people so appreciate the words of God in such a manner.
I was particularly amazed last week, that, in the midst of the rockets falling on S'derot close to the border of northern Gaza, a "wedding" ceremony of the Torah dedication took place.
It was an "in your face" celebration by this battered community. After 1,000 S'derot citizens had evacuated earlier that day, a small contingent of remaining brave and faith-filled citizens, who themselves had been experiencing a barrage of 100 rockets within 3 days, paraded through their pockholed streets -- with their new Torah scroll! They danced, they kissed and hugged the Torah, they sang, they celebrated with great exuberance. 
