We are writing our very first Torah
For the first time in the history of our shul, a sofer will sit down, dip his quill, and begin a Sefer Torah that belongs to all of us. It starts on Sunday, August 9, with the community in the room. Come stand at the table, watch the first letters take shape, and share a l'chaim.
When
Sunday, August 9
10:00 AM
Where
Chabad Jewish Center of Tamarac
8100 North University Drive
What to expect
Brunch, Dessert, L'Chaim
Open to the whole community
RSVP for August 9
Admission is free. Please let us know you are coming so we can set the table.
The Torah
304,805
letters, written by hand
A Sefer Torah is written the same way it has been written for over three thousand years: one scribe, one quill, parchment from a kosher animal, and ink made by hand. Every letter must be perfect and complete. If a single letter is cracked, missing, or touching its neighbor, the entire scroll is not kosher until it is repaired. That is why a Torah is the truest picture of a community. No letter is optional, and no one is spare.
From parchment to Aliyah
How our Torah gets written
1
The first letters
August 9. The sofer writes the opening words of Bereishis with the community watching.
2
The year of writing
Column by column, roughly a year of work at the scribe's table.
3
Sewing and checking
The panels are sewn with giddin and every letter is reviewed for kashrus.
4
Hachnasas Sefer Torah
The final letters are filled in and we dance our Torah home through the streets of Tamarac.
Writing a Sefer Torah is the 613th and final mitzvah of the Torah, and the only one that every single Jew is obligated in personally. Most of us will never hold a quill. Buying a letter in a community Torah is how that mitzvah becomes ours.
Dedications
Reserve your place in the scroll
The writing has begun, and the scroll is filling in letter by letter. Dedicate a letter, a word, a verse or a full parsha in honor of a simcha, in memory of a loved one, or in your family's name. Every dedication is recorded permanently in a Torah that will be read in Tamarac for generations.
Dedication Opportunities
Every dedication is honored
A letter, a word or a verse
A personalized certificate
Everyone who dedicates receives a certificate recording their place in the scroll, inscribed with the names they chose.
A parsha and above
A framed certificate, and a letter written in your own hand
Dedicate a full parsha or higher and you will receive a beautifully framed certificate, along with the honor of sitting with the sofer and completing one of the final letters of the Torah yourself.
What can be dedicated
A letter
The smallest piece of the scroll, and the one every family can hold. 304,805 available.
A word
Dedicate a full word in honor of a birth, a bar mitzvah, or an anniversary.
A verse
A complete pasuk, often chosen for the words that carry a family name.
A parsha
An entire weekly portion, read aloud in our shul year after year.
Torah accessories
The mantle, crown, yad, breastplate, atzei chaim and the ark that will hold it.
Celebration
Sunday, August 9 at 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Brunch and greetings
10:45 AM Meet the sofer, first letters written
11:30 AM Dedication by the Rosner family
12:00 PM Dessert and l'chaim
Bring the children. Watching a sofer write is the kind of thing a child remembers for fifty years.
Chabad Jewish Center of Tamarac
8100 North University Drive, Tamarac, FL
Questions about the Torah campaign? Reply to this page's contact or call the office.
Dedicated by Aimie and Michael Rosner
