Susan Boyer has sent us the
following message:
We are pleased to announce
that Temple Beth El of Hollywood in conjunction with the Memorial Scrolls Trust
is hosting Florida’s first ever Holocaust Torah Reunion. This weekend
long event will take place on February 12 – 14, 2016.
The events of the weekend
have been planned to educate and celebrate. The foremost authorities will
be present to host workshops and lectures on the restoration, preservation, and
continued use of these treasured scrolls. Expert sofrim will be on hand
to examine the Torahs and reveal their individual histories. Learn how
many of the scribes used hidden mystical symbols in creating these scrolls, and
find out if your congregation’s Holocaust Torah has these, too. Many
holocaust survivors will be present to share their stories of endurance – not
unlike the unique stories of survival each of these scrolls has as well.
We hope to reunite many of
these precious Torah scrolls for the first time since they were rescued and taken
to the Westminster Synagogue in London in 1964. It was soon after they
were rescued that the Memorial Scrolls Trust was established. The Trust’s
purpose was, and still is, to ensure that these precious scrolls would be
distributed to congregations throughout the world to be loved and cherished by
future generations.
Your participation is crucial
to that very cause and to the Torah Reunion’s success. Please consider
attending and bringing your congregation’s Holocaust Torah with you.
Round-the-clock security will be on hand to guard the Torahs in our sanctuary,
should you decide to bring and store your scroll with ours.
A detailed schedule of events
is available for all participants. Honor your Holocaust Torah by learning
as much as you can about it, while honoring us with your presence. Please
contact Lynn Strauss at 305-205-5151 for further information. You may
also contact our Temple office staff at 954-920-8225 to accept our invitation.
As valuable as these Torahs
are to preserve and protect, they are even more valuable restored and read from
regularly. They must be used and cherished, or the evils of WWII will
have got what they’ve always wanted – to take our religion and traditions from
us.
We look forward to hearing
from you soon.
