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Children's Sefer Torah
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Children's Sefer Torah
Project
of SA |
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Our children have the opportunity to
unite with their peers all over South Africa as they come together to "write"
this special Children's Sefer Torah of South Africa.
The Torah is the eternal bridge linking human beings with G-d. Fulfilling this Mitzva on behalf of a Jewish child is a very powerful merit for their soul. This is a unique chance for your child to have a share in this new Children’s Sefer Torah, identical to the very first Sefer Torah dictated by G-d to Moshe Rabbeinu.
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In Deuteronomy 31/19 the Torah states: "So now, write this song for yourselves.." The sages learn from this verse that every Jew is commanded to write a Sefer Torah. The Rambam writes (Hilchot Sefer Torah 7:1) that since the lack of one Torah letter causes a Torah Scroll to be invalid, the commandment can be fulfilled by writing a single letter of a completed scroll. The Chofetz Chaim in Sefer Ha'mitzvot lists this as one of the 613 commandments and quotes the Rambam saying that if it is not possible for a person to physically write the Sefer Torah himself, he has to buy a Sefer Torah or hire someone to write it for him. Rav Moshe Feinstein writes that a person can fulfill their obligation to perform this mitzvah by uniting together with other Jews to write one collective Sefer Torah. |
painting with kind permission from Shoshana Centner
email : shoshanacentner@yahoo.com |
