Simcha (disambiguation)

Simcha is Hebrew for happiness or joy.

Simcha may also refer to:

• A joyous event in Judaism, such as a wedding, bar mitzvah, or bat mitzvah is generally referred to as a simcha

Simcha may also refer to:

People

• Reza Simkhah (born 1970), Iranian wrestler
• Simcha Barbiro (born 1967), Israeli actor
• Simcha Blass (1897–1982), Polish-Israeli engineer and inventor
• Simcha Bunim Alter (1898–1992)
• Simcha Bunim Cohen, Orthodox rabbi and author
• Simcha Bunim of Peshischa (1765–1827), key leader of Hasidic Judaism in Poland
• Simcha Dinitz (1929–2003), Israeli statesman and politician
• Simcha Eichenstein (born 1983), American politician
• Simcha Elberg (1915–1995), Talmudic scholar
• Simcha Felder, American politician
• Simcha Friedman (1911–1990), Israeli rabbi, educator, and politician
• Simcha Holtzberg (1924–1994), Israeli activist and Holocaust survivor
• Simcha Jacobovici (born 1953), "Naked Archaeologist"
• Simcha Krauss (born 1937), rabbi
• Simcha Leiner (born 1989), American singer
• Simcha Lieberman (1929–2009), Israeli Talmudic scholar
• Simcha of Rome, a Jewish scholar and rabbi
• Simcha Rotem (1924–2018), Polish-Israeli veteran
• Simcha Shirman (born 1947), German born Israeli photographer
• Simcha Soroker (1928–2004), Israeli economist
• Simcha Weinstein (born 1975), English author and a rabbi
• Simcha Zelig Reguer (1864–1942), chief Rabbinical judge
• Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz (1908–2001), rabbi
• Simcha Zissel Ziv (1824–1898), early leader of the Musar movement
• Simcha Zorin (1902–1974), Jewish Soviet partisan commander in Minsk
• Simchah Roth (died 2012), Israeli rabbi and scholar

See also

• Simchat Torah
• Happiness in Judaism