http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2005/10/31/the-sefer-torah-recycling-network-looking-back-and-looking-forward/ The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:11:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2005/10/31/the-sefer-torah-recycling-network-looking-back-and-looking-forward/#comment-51 Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:43:14 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2005/10/31/the-sefer-torah-recycling-network-looking-back-and-looking-forward/#comment-51 [...] And our parsha explains that Eliezer was “…astonished at Rifka…” (Breish’t Perek 24, posukim 15 and 17-20)just as I was astonished when, in mid-sentence, I was stopped just short of 11 years ago [back in Philadelphia] from relating my story of the Melave Malka [where the idea for The Sefer Torah Recycling Network was born] the previous night. Rabbi Mordechai Young offered me a Sefer Torah which was restored and placed in Yishuv Bat Ayin some 5 months later. This Sefer brought about the birth of an idea which became reality with the subsequent placement, over the next 11 years, of this and 10 other Sifrei Torah in needy locations exclusively in Eretz Yisrael. [...] […] And our parsha explains that Eliezer was “…astonished at Rifka…” (Breish’t Perek 24, posukim 15 and 17-20)just as I was astonished when, in mid-sentence, I was stopped just short of 11 years ago [back in Philadelphia] from relating my story of the Melave Malka [where the idea for The Sefer Torah Recycling Network was born] the previous night. Rabbi Mordechai Young offered me a Sefer Torah which was restored and placed in Yishuv Bat Ayin some 5 months later. This Sefer brought about the birth of an idea which became reality with the subsequent placement, over the next 11 years, of this and 10 other Sifrei Torah in needy locations exclusively in Eretz Yisrael. […]

]]> http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2005/10/31/the-sefer-torah-recycling-network-looking-back-and-looking-forward/#comment-49 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:20:25 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2005/10/31/the-sefer-torah-recycling-network-looking-back-and-looking-forward/#comment-49 [...] It’s time for a word about The Sefer Torah Recycling Network. [...] […] It’s time for a word about The Sefer Torah Recycling Network. […]

]]> http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2005/10/31/the-sefer-torah-recycling-network-looking-back-and-looking-forward/#comment-30 Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:09:45 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2005/10/31/the-sefer-torah-recycling-network-looking-back-and-looking-forward/#comment-30 [...] The Nationalist in me was heartsick as I watched Oslo unfold. I tried to do what I could from the US — pray a lot and find old, posul Sifrei Torah for repair and recycling to needy locations in Israel but felt as if I was accomplishing little. I even made 3 trips to Israel between 1995 and 1998. But I was not living there — I had not done my Yishuv Eretz Yisrael yet. [...] […] The Nationalist in me was heartsick as I watched Oslo unfold. I tried to do what I could from the US — pray a lot and find old, posul Sifrei Torah for repair and recycling to needy locations in Israel but felt as if I was accomplishing little. I even made 3 trips to Israel between 1995 and 1998. But I was not living there — I had not done my Yishuv Eretz Yisrael yet. […]

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