The new scroll, which was written some 70 years ago in Russia, spent the past three months being painstakingly repaired by religious scribes in Israel.
More than 100 people attended the May 24 dedication ceremony, made possible by the Wilkenfeld Family in appreciation of Dr. Byron Wilkenfeld’s recovery from a serious illness.
At the ceremony, guests one-by-one got the opportunity to assist Rabbi Ariel Asa, an Atlanta-based scribe, in completing the Torah’s final letters. Afterwards, celebrants marched with the Torah to the scroll’s new home at the Chabad House.
Chabad of the Upstate in Greer, South Carolina, already utilized the scroll for the reading of the Ten Commandments on Shavuos.
“It is hard to imagine an object in Judaism more poignant and central than a Torah Scroll,” said Goodfriend. “Indeed, our sages tell us that every Jewish person is compared to a letter in the Torah. For this and many other reasons, the acquisition of a new Torah Scroll is a source of blessings for our entire community and will bring benefit both physically and spiritually.”
Some of these comments make me ill. A very special man and his extremely special wife and children are Mosrei Nefesh and leave the comfort of their frum community to go to a place where for 2 years they couldn’t make a minyan and this is the kind of support they get? From Lubavitchers, no less. You should be ashamed. Are you jealous maybe #1 that you never got the opportunity to do something like this and make so many people open to being able to hear laining on Shabbos? It escapes me how people can be so mean spirited.… Read more »
2- Save your gaava. You are second.
Maybe this sofer is part of the community. Where does it say that the sofer has to be lubavitch? I hear Eli Rosenfeld is a friend from hadar hatora and he restores sifrei torah. I dont know where he lives today.
Beautiful and inspiring. A true Kiddish Shem Shamayim and only a Shaliach like Reb Adam Yaacov and Chanie Goodfriend could pull off such a magnificent event in such a short time of being in a new place like Greer, South Carolina.
It seems that Adam and Chanie Goodfriend and all the Sshluchim of South and North Carolina will bring back the former glory of Yiddishkeit into the Carolinas with even more inspiration and vitality– all thanks to the Rebbe’s Kochos given to the Shluchim.
Reb Adam Yaacov and Rebetzin Chanie and Goodfriend children—Mazal Tov!
Joshua
BH
hah im first!
According to halacha you can only do the siyum once, the first time the sefer is finished. Why do people ignore halacha as soon as there is a fund rasing opportunity?