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Brooklyn Torah Gazette — Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Vayakhel 5784 — Vayak'hel 5784

Выпуск: Brooklyn Torah Gazette — Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Vayakhel 5784 — Vayak'hel 5784. Темы: family_education, holidays, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, пурим, песах, ханука, суккот, yom tov, פורים, פסח, חנוכה, סוכות, шалом байт, брак, отношения. A century later, after falling into disuse and disrepair, one of the Torah scrolls has found a new home, when two scions of the Shamash family—Hannah Zion and her brother, Ronald Abram—refurbished and rededicated it last month at Chabad- Lubavitch of Hong Kong. “We want to show our own descendants and other 10 | P a g e Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Vayakhel 5784 young Jews living in Hong Kong the importance of maintaining Jewish life and tradition by connecting with the ancient Torah of the Jewish people.“ Additionally, through the story of her extended family’s challenges and triumphs around the world, Zion hopes that the rededicated Torah will serve as a living testament to “the strength and resilience of the Jewish people; their timeless devotion to Jewish tradition; and their ability to care for their own through times of both peace and persecution.” That hope was also felt by Hannah and her husband Ephraim's grandson, Akiva Zion, who had the honor of reading from the centennial Torah the first day it was used in Chabad of Hong Kong. When the Afghan synagogues in which the scrolls were housed closed in the early 1950s, the cousins’ grandfather and family patriarch, Rahamim Shamash, transported the Torahs to two Afghan synagogues: Neve Yerushalayim and Yeshua V’Rahamim in southern Tel Aviv, where many Afghani Jews first relocated, said family member and historian Dr. Regardless of the difficulties one faces, we can all come together as one.” Jason Weber, who attended the ceremony with his wife, Dina, said “we were moved to see the Zion family rekindle their family legacy in the city in which they now live, perpetuating the memory of their ancestors and the Jewish people’s priceless inheritance, the Torah.” An Incredible Story of Jewish Continuity Goldie Avtzon, co-director of Chabad of Hong Kong, echoed that sentiment. 5|P ag e Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Vayakhel 5784 Rabbi Berel Wein on Parshat Vayakhel 5784 One of the main questions raised by the commentators to this week's parsha is

Издание

Brooklyn Torah Gazette

Дата

8 марта 2024 г.

Страниц

14

Темы: family_education, holidays, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary