its always sad - though I dont know whether that stems from a reluctance to again face reality (bad) or something more genuine.
Over this sukkos, I theorized that the minhag to dance before the torah on simchas torah and the hakafos of simchas torah are in reality two separate minhagim - i believe this is meduyak in shulchan aruch and in the darchei moshe, and if you think about, theres one point which clinches this argument: since when do you 'dance' with the torah by walking it around the bimah in a circle -- thats not dancing!
Hakafos, it is clear, stem from hoshanos - as we say in hakafos, ana hashem hoshia na... We do hoshanos with lulav and esrog, and simcha is an inherent part of the daled minim (as per the pasuk usmachtem lifnei hashem shivas yomim). While on rosh hashana and yom kippur, we cry out to g-d to save us out of yirah, in the hoshanos of sukkos, which culminate in the hoshanos / hakafos of simchas torah, we daven for hashem to save us with simcha. (I think the excessive emphasis on 'dancing' really takes away from this powerful point.)
G-d should grant us all meaningful and successful months ahead, and a speedy rebuilding of the beis hamkidash in our days.
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