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In The Beginning...

Congregation ffnai Moshe
kicks off the scribing of a refer Torah.

JULIE EDGAR News Editor

BILL HANSEN Photographer

ongregation B'nai Moshe launched the scribing
of a new Torah this month with a celebration.
The "Torahtaynu" ("Our Torah") brought chil-
dren and adults up close to an existing scroll, to
understand the painstaking process of scribing, and put
in their hands historic Torah artifacts owned by the West
Bloomfield synagogue. Children also had an opportunity
to create their own scrolls.
Rabbi Zvi Chaim Pincus of Brooklyn, the Torah
scribe, spoke about the year-long process and inscribed
the first letters of the sefer Torah. He will inscribe more
than 300,000 Hebrew characters before the sefer Torah is
completed in a ceremony at B'nai Moshe.
The scroll will be scribed in memory of the late Abram
Rabinovitz, B'nai Moshe's Torah reader for 45 years. ❑