Why is every Tom, Dick
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The Hidden Light in Creation:
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with it."
Rabbi Shemtov stressed,
"This is not just about a Torah
— but about the people who
kept the Torah. It is about
Daniel, who lived with self-sac-
rifice, who kept underground
minyans and went more than
100 miles to buy kosher meat,"
he said. "He is an inspiration
because he was able to keep the
commandments through such
difficult periods. He is also a
great reminder of how much
we can incorporate into our
daily lives because we live a
country that allows us religious
freedom."
A showing of that freedom
was evident when Vladimir
Sobolnitsky stood among oth-
ers, including his new friend
Howard Schwartz, to receive
an aliyah at the Torah as it was
unrolled and read for the first
time in a very long time.
"Vladimir and I bonded
like brothers," Schwartz said.
Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov of the Shul with Rabbi
"Having an aliyah from the
Yudi Mann, the Shul publications director, review Torah, with him, was unbeliev-
a portion in the Torah.
able. It's like we were standing
in front of a Torah that had
come back to life. This Torah
Dedicated To Freedom
has been through more than we'll ever
On Sept. 9, the Shul held a celebration
know. During my aliyah, I kept think-
as the newly restored Torah was
ing about all the people who read from
marched into the building and placed
this Torah and all the places it had been
into the ark.
throughout the years."
"When I saw my father's Torah, I
For Sobolnitsky, the thoughts were
cried, because it was there in the memo-
equally deep, but more specific.
ry of my father," Sobolnitsky said.
"Seeing the Torah being used," he
"I was born in a country where they
said,
"was like watch-
say there is no God. My family was very
ing
my
father's
religious, but much of my life we didn't
dream
come
go to shul because we would be in trou-
true."
ble if we did. This is why we came to
the United States — not for money —
but for freedom, to be in a place where
we can talk and walk and pray and show
our Torah anywhere."
To use the newly dedicated Torah on
Yom Kippur conveys a very powerful
message, according to Rabbi Shemtov.
"The message of the Torah coming
to the Shul on Yom Kippur is that every
Jew can come home to God and can
take on some of the mitzvot, no matter
what trials and tribulations they have
gone through," he said. "We're like the
Torah that survived a great superpower
trying to squash it. This is a Torah that
showed it could go through distance, be
under persecution, be hidden by the
Russians and even be cracked. We might
think, 'What hope does this Torah ever
A new crown
have?' But ultimately you fix it up and
for a cherished
pray from it and learn from it and dance
Torah.
"
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