[yshavurah] Re: Torah Story
- From: Eric Friedland <efriedland@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jrothman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:40:00 -0400
on 7/10/03 8:11 AM, Jay Rothman at jrothman@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dear Havurahniks,
>
> About two months ago Steve Green and his neighbor, Tom Dozeman, were
> chatting on Tom's porch and somehow the topic of the Havurah came up and
> the lack of our own Torah was mentioned. Tom said, "Well that's no
> problem. I work at the Union Theological Seminary in Dayton. We have one.
> I'm sure could arrange something for you." It turns out that forty years
> ago, the president of UTS was in Israel and was given a Torah which has
> since been in the Seminary (now in the basement of the library). When a
> number of us from the Havurah went to see it, we were excited by its
> beauty and the possibility of giving it a Jewish home and a little
> saddened but its
> serious state of disrepair. The President of the Seminary has indeed
> agreed to make a gift of this Torah to us.
>
> So...here's the plan that was discussed by seven of us (Cheryl, Jay, Toni,
> Danielle, Johanna, Bill, Suzanne, Toni) at the last SC meeting:
>
> We shared a sense of urgency that the gift of this Torah needs to be
> accepted sooner than later, acknowledging that this is a big step for us
> as a Havurah. We would like to accept the gift of the Torah, but house it
> in one of the area synagogues as a respectful and safe holding place,
> until we can have a fuller discussion with interested Havurah members
> about what it will mean and how we will live up to the blessing and
> responsibility of welcoming this Torah in to our
> midst.
>
> As soon as arrangements have been made for this, we will call a meeting
> for everyone who is interested.
>
> Shalom, Jay
>
Friend Jay,
All this is terribly exciting. What I'm not at all clear about is just why
the Torah scroll has to be placed with one of the area synagogues when the
Havurah already has a lovely and very usable portable ark of its own. Is
insurance coverage an issue? If so, would that be the only one?
As you and your family drive through the Smokies to drop the boys off at
camp, have a marvelous and safe time. Come back fully refreshed.
Nesi'ah tovah and Shabbat Shalom.
Eric
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