Simcha and Yiddish noun meaning festive occasion. The term is used for any happy occasion, such as a wedding, Bar Mitzvah or engagement. The day of Simchat Torah, "Rejoice in the Law", which marks the completion and beginning of the annual cycle of reading the Torah. Simcha is also the name of a kosher beer from Saxony, Germany. It was also a slang term used in Jewish-American organized crime circles to refer to a pimp. Simcha is also used as a given name, for men or women. In the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, the name Simcha is most likely to be used
Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz Avrohom Moshe Faivelson. His son Yisroel has married children: Naftali to Esther Leah (Cohen), Nosson Tzvi to Devorah Esther (Krasner), Haddasah Leah to Osher Steinharter, Yael to Shmuel Simcha Goldberg, Chava to Yitzchak Zev Wasserman, and Eliyahu Zalman to Chava (Sorotzkin), and Simcha and Sholom (twins) are 11. Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz (1908–2001) was a rabbi and founder of the first Mesivta (Jewish High School) in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and a teacher of thousands of students. He was born in 1908 in Ozovnet, Lithuania. His father, Musar movement leader Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz, was the spiritual leader