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under the chuppah, helping Ray pen
the children," said Rabbi David
a letter from the first line of the
Castiglione. "It was the blessing first
book of Exodus. "I felt I was part of
given at Mt. Sinai when the Torah was
a very special historic moment in the
first given to the children of Israel,"
life of our congregation and the life
he said.
of the Jewish people," she said.
And so the rabbi asked all the
"Some day, I hope my children, my
children in the sanctuary to rise, and
grandchildren and my great-grand-
the children on the bimah to stand
children will know of my connection
under the scribe's tallit. And as a
to this Torah."
community, as the future of Beth El,
"This is the Temple's history," said
as the keepers of the new Torah,
Freedman,
"and what
Top to bottom:
we're doing
Jennifer Zeidman and Barg
is impor-
Newsome had a front-row view.
tant not
just for
Rabbi Ray holdL a tallit over
today, but
(clockwise, from top)
for the
Alexsandra Dubov, Molly
Foltyn, Max Aidenbaum, Ian
future."
Kohler and Ashley Cohen.
"It was
great, it
Matthew Ackerman guides
the
6
made me
-gomomovihilL rabbi's hand
feel so close
to my Judaism," said
15-year-old Daniel
Canvasser, chosen as
a representative of
the 10th grade class.
"Being there, being
a part of it," he
reflected, "it's some-
thing I will never
forget."
Congregants will
have an opportunity
to purchase dedica-
tions for a portion,
verse, phrase or
word from the fresh-
ly scribed Torah. But the project
itself is dedicated to the congre-
gation and to its children who
represent generations to come.
"So many of you boys and
girls here will be reading from
that Torah for your Bar and Bat
Mitzvahs," Rabbi Syme told the
religious school children who
filled the sanctuary. "And as you
do, you should look at it as a
blessing."
"So many hundreds and thou-
sands of Torahs were destroyed
by the Nazis in World War II," he said.
they were blessed.
"We have the ability to reach into the
As he watched, Ray was struck by
burning embers and restore them."
the wonder of the moment.
"We as a congregation are rebuild-
No matter how many times you
ing what the Nazis took away," said
begin a new Torah," said the master
Temple president Freedman, "and as
scribe, who has transcribed dozens of
we carry on the Torah's words to a liv-
holy books in the past four decades,
ing, breathing community, it speaks to
"it's always an emotional time.
the Jewish people and their tenacity
"Those who have helped write it
and their fight to survive."
know," he says, "it's something that
"It is tradition at the writing of the
connects the soul of people. It's like
scrolls to share a special blessing on all
hearing the angels sing."