[Sefer-torah-network-news] The Sefer Torah Network Newsletter,
Vol. 1, Number 14.
Moshe Burt
mosheb at sefer-torah.com
Fri Jan 9 03:17:52 EST 2004
Sefer Torah Network News
Volume 1, Number 14
9
January, 2004
Shalom Friends;
Welcome to the 14th edition of the Sefer Torah Network News list..
<http://www.sefer-torah.com>The Sefer Torah Recycling Network
continues to be active on various fronts. Therefore, there are a few
noteworthy developments to report in The Sefer Torah Network News
list.
After two months of negotiations, I'm pleased to announce that a
Sefer Torah will IY'H be transferred to The Sefer Torah Recycling
Network for repairs and placement in the Givat Nof Harim hilltop
community of Yishuv Eli in the Shomron. The cost of the repairs is
being defrayed by the owner of the Sefer and his Shul.
The community of Givat Nof Harim, east of Eli in the Shomron,
consists of 35 families and has been without a Sefer Torah for a
number of years. We look forward placement of the Sefer Torah upon
completion of the repairs and to a big Hochnossis Sefer Torah
celebration sometime in March IY'H. Please watch this newsletter, as
well as various Israel email lists and Arutz-7 for up-to-date news as
to the day and time of the celebration and transportation to get you
there and back. I hope to see many of you at theHochnossis Sefer
Torah celebration, including those currently living in Chutz L'Aretz
who happen to be visiting Israel at the time of the celebration.
In another development, The Sefer Torah Recycling Network has gained
access to a limited number of Sefer Torah posters. Those donating
$180 or more will be sent one of these posters which is frameable.
These Sefer Torah posters provide yet another opportunity to impact
on the heavenly scales by making needy locations Mokomot Torah and
promoting Torah study. We are asking people to help us raise the
necessary funds for the restoration of two Sifrei Torah slated for
placement in needy locations here in Israel.
A Sefer Torah poster makes a beautiful livingroom centerpiece
picture. The Sefer Torah poster has a brown Mantel on either side and
the 247 Amudim on a blue background.
<http://www.sefer-torah.com/torah1.htm>Click here to view a partial
scan of the poster.
While they last, those donating $180 or more will receive a full
Sefer Torah poster including all 247 Amudim.
Please note that the site has undergone some subtle alterations
designed to make the message to the viewer more focused and directed.
We have placed
<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/home>ArtScroll.com,
with it's special directed links, in a more prominent position on the
front page and on other pages on the site while changing the
positioning of other links and by adding an automatic, one-button
method of subscription to this newsletter.
Special directed links to
<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/home>ArtScroll.com,
both on the site and in this newsletter, enable you to help The Sefer
Torah Recycling Network to raise funds while purchasing S'forim and
keeping up
with<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/ASIN/TAL> The
Daf Yomi.
Those wishing to subscribe after reading this edition of the
newsletter may do so either by clicking on the website and placing
their email address on the email address line and clicking the submit
button or by following the subscription instructions at the end of
this post.
A special page has been added to the site which deals with an issue
of crisis proportion which is near and dear to my heart -- halachic
issues regarding Kohanim.
We are currently in process of promoting The Sefer Torah Recycling
Network to Shuls and Jewish Day Schools with websites and email
addresses throughout the US, Canada and elsewhere.
Raising the necessary funds for two restorations of Sifrei Torah
($10,000) for Homesh and the kehilla on Bat Ayin is presently THE
central focus of The Sefer Torah Recycling Network. So far, the
project has thankfully received donations from many sponsors but is
still far short of the funds necessary to defray these restoration
costs.
It is vital that The Sefer Torah Recycling Network receive
seed-funding as well as ongoing cash donations and a constant influx
of Sifrei Torah. In this way, The Sefer Torah project will become
an active, ongoing, serious organization which solicits and receives
donations of Sifrei Torah, or acquires S'forim for cash for placement
in needy locations throughout Israel. In the process, such donations
will avail ongoing employment to needy Sofrim to repair and restore
posul Sifrei Torah for placement in the growing number of needy
locations in Israel which request help in acquiring a Sefer Torah.
Toward the bottom of this newsletter, please read the brief
descriptions of many more such locations throughout Israel currently
either without their own Sifrei Torah or lacking sufficient number of
Sifrei Torah. This same information is available by clicking on
"About The Sefer Torah Recycling Network" page of the website which
will provide a history of the project as well as details on the
various needy organizations.
I ask all of you to please help publicize The Sefer Torah Recycling
Network, thereby opening up further possibility of donations of
Sifrei Torah and/or funds. I am asking that subscribers pass this
edition of the Sefer Torah Network News list to their friends and
relatives via email with an invitation to subscribe themselves.
(subscription instructions are below.) Perhaps you would also
consider printing out hardcopies and posting the Sefer Torah Network
News to your Shul's Bulletin Board and/or suggesting a link on your
Shul's email list to The Sefer Torah Recycling Network,. Please
note that the embedded links may not show up as such on the forwarded
copy. However, the URLs will show up next to the words of the links.
Additional newsletter subscribers = more traffic to the site = more
financial donations and potential Sefer Torah donors.
Subscribers, if you have not already viewed the Arutz-7 story of
several months ago, the Article is entitled, "Recycling Torah Scrolls
To Israel". (It can be read by clicking on the underlined words.)
The Sefer Torah Recycling Network has also received coverage recently
in The Jewish Press and in The Capital News (formerly
Daf Shemesh).
Hopefully, with your help and IY'H additional publicity, the
exposure, subscribership and Donations of funds and Sifrei Torah will
grow in the weeks and months to come as a result of both initial and
ongoing efforts.
Continued wishes for a Sweet year and enjoyable reading of the Sefer
Torah Network News list.
Best Regards,
Moshe Burt
Founder and Director
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Please visit the
<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/home>ArtScroll.com
Website and help support The Sefer Torah Recycling Network. A
portion of all purchases from the ArtScroll.com website will support
the project's mission - only when you click on this
link:<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/home>
ArtScroll.com.
Sefer Torah Network News selections for this newsletter;
<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/ASIN/TAL>The
Schottenstein Edition Talmud, The Aryeh Kaplan Anthology Set / 2
Volume Slipcased Set, By Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan and
<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/ASIN/WAVL>Rabbi
Berel Wein's Pirkei Avos: Teachings for Our Times.
Please note that you can now place a
<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/ASIN/DYT>Standing
Order of the Daf Yomi Size Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud and
receive every volume of the Daf Yomi Size Schottenstein Talmud as
they are Published and help support <http://www.sefer-torah.com>The
Sefer Torah Recycling Network at the same time.
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Tehillim for Recovery from Illness
Please see that tehillim is said for the following individuals;
Moshe Shlomo ben Michal
Moshe Shlomo is a little over 1 year old. There were complications
at birth which have resulted in slowness in coordination and motor
development.
Aliza Channa Devorah bat Malka.
Aliza is 12 years of age. She is receiving Chemo-therapy treatments
for cancer in Hadassah Childrens hospital. She had complained of
pain in her right shoulder. Doctors found a tumor and she was
diagnosed a few months ago. Please pray hard for her refuah
shleimah. This request came to me from her grandparents who live in
the U.S.
Menucha Mendel Yehudit Rut bat Chaya Zelda;
A widow from London who became ill during a visit to EretzYisrael and
who is currently recovering from her illness in London. Please pray
hard for her refuah shleimah.
And please Daven for Good Health for Yehonatan ben Malka (Jonathan
Pollard) and for his speedy release from American incarceration and
his return to his beloved homeland, Eretz Yisrael.
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Sponsorship Donation Program
Lifting Neshamot through Donations of Funds/Sifrei Torah
Flash: <http://www.sefer-torah.com/torah1.htm>Special Incentive gift
for those Sponsors donating $180 or More*
Why not donate a paragraph, or a section or the reading from your Bar
Mitzvah, marriage, or some other family event.
Principals and Administrators of Religious Day Schools, Talmudei
Torah and Yeshiva High Schools; The Sponsorship Donation Program to
help restore Sifrei Torah for placement in needy locations in Israel
makes an excellent Chinuch and Tzedakah project for your students and
their families. Friends, please recommend it to principals and
adminstrators for inclusion in their educational programs.
Please send me an email stating your level of sponsorship, and what
you seek to sponsor. More information is also available on our
website. Making a donation, whether a financial donation made
through a program such as theSponsorship Donation program, or via the
donation of a Sefer Torah, can cause the elevation in Shemayim of the
Neshama of the niftar loved one or close friend.
Please keep this thought in mind as you consider a donation to The
Sefer Torah project.
Sefer Torah $ 6,000 25,000 NIS
1 Sefer;
i.e. Sefer
Breish't $ 1,800 7,200 NIS
1 Parsha $ 180 (10 x Chai) 720 NIS
(40 x Chai)
1 Amud $ 54 ( 3 x Chai) 216 NIS
(12 x Chai)
1 Posuk $ 10 36
NIS (2 x Chai )
2 Posukim $ 18 ( Chai) 72
NIS (4 x Chai)
3 Posukim $ 36 ( 2 x Chai) 144 NIS
( 8 x Chai)
Why not donate posukim, amudim or the Parsha of your Bar Mitzvah,
Marriage, or some other family Simcha? Wnen donating in this way,
please send me an email stating your level of sponsership, what
Posukim, Amud, Parsha, etc. you seek to sponsor and your method of
payment; by check, see directions in method #2 (listed in the "You
can help in five ways" section shown below) or via paypal (see next
line).
In the USA;
To receive a USA tax receipt, donors should make their checks out to
"Congregation Ahavas Torah Tzedakah Fund." Please note on both the
memo line of the check and on the envelope that the check is for:
"Mark Burt & Sefer Torah Recycling Network." Be sure to include your
address. Upon request, a tax-deductible receipt for your donation
will be mailed to you. Mail checks to:
Congregation Ahavas Torah Tzedakah Fund,
1425 Rhawn Street,
Philadelphia, Pa. 19111.
In Canada;
To receive a Canadian tax receipt, donors should make their checks
out to "JBRASS" (BN#864426911RR0001). Please also enclose a note as
well as mark the envelope that the check is for "Mark Burt & Sefer
Torah Recycling Network." Be sure to include your address. Upon
request, a tax-deductible receipt for your donation will be mailed to
you. Mail checks to:
The Sefer Torah Recycling Network,
46 Meadowbrook Road, Apt. 6,
Toronto, Ontario, M6B 2S6
Canada
In Israel;
Donors in Israel can donate by contacting 067-305-497 or emailing
Moshe Burt <strnetmb at yahoo.com> or <mosheb at sefer-torah.com> for
mailing information.
Sponsorship Donors can make an Online donation
via<https://www.paypal.com> paypal. Simply copy the email address;
<mosheb at sefer-torah.com>, then click on the
<https://www.paypal.com/>paypal link, and paste the copied email
address onto the "Recipient's email" field.
All donors participating in the Sponsorship donation program will
receive an attractive, commemorative certificate in recognition of
their kind donation.
*The Sefer Torah Recycling Network has gained access to a limited
number of Sefer Torah posters. Those donating $180 or more will be
sent one of these posters which is frameable. It makes a beautiful
livingroom centerpiece picture. The Sefer Torah
<http://www.sefer-torah.com/torah1.htm>pictured has a brown Mantel on
either side and the 247 Amudim on a blue background.
<http://www.sefer-torah.com/torah1.htm>Click here to view a partial
scan of the poster.
While they last, those donating $180 or more will receive a full
Sefer Torah poster including all 247 Amudim.
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Check out the Updated <http://www.sefer-torah.com>Sefer Torah
Recycling Network website and see all of the new bells, whistles and
features which provide you with all necessary information about the
project from <http://www.sefer-torah.com/storah.html>lists of needy
locations to <http://www.sefer-torah.com/approbations.htm>Rabbinic
Approbations.
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D'var Torah
Parsha Vayechi/Sh'mot -- Self-Respect and Self-Image;
The Keys to Respect from the Nations.
By Moshe Burt
Our Parsha HaShevua marks two years since terrorists snuffed out the
life of a young hesder yeshiva student from Yeshivat Hakotel who was
serving on his first miluim (reserve)duty, along the Jordanian border
near Moshav Yardena. The young soldier was a medic. He and his wife
had recently taken up residence in Ramat Beit Shemesh "A". During
the Shiva period, a group of us from Ramat Beit Shemesh went to join
the Mishpocha in davening Shacharit and to pay our consolations to
the family. Previous to learning in Yeshivat HaKotel, the young
soldier also learned in Sha'alvim.
In these two years, we have seen Medinat Yisrael move from
humiliation to humiliation, from absurdity to absurdity. From Cheney
to Zinni Plans and on to Roadmaps, Security Fences and Unilateral
Separation, Disengagement or whatever new "Dumb or Dumber" spin term
Arik Sharon comes up with next.
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, in his Sefer "Growth Through Torah" on Parsha
Sh'mos, speaks about self-respect and the lack thereof as a cause of
subjugation by others.
Rabbi Pliskin cites both the Ohr Hachayim and Rabbi Chayim
Shmuelevitz. The Ohr Hachayim explains that there were three stages
to the enslavement of B'nai Yisrael. "First Yosef died, the B'nai
Yisrael lost their power, Then the brothers died. As long as even
one brother was alive, the Egyptians still honored them. Even
afterwards, as long as the members of that first generation were
alive, the Egyptians considered them important and were not able to
treat them as slaves."
Rabbi Chayim Shmuelevitz, the Mirrer Rosh Yeshiva, commented "that
there are two aspects here. One is ... the Egyptians. They were
unable to treat the Jewish people as slaves as long as they (the
Egyptians) considered them important. The other aspect is ... the
Jewish people themselves. As long as they were considered important
and worthy of respect by themselves, the Egyptians were not able to
treat them in an inferior manner. Only when they personally
considered themselves in a lowly manner could they be subjugated by
others." Rabbi Shmuelevitz racked up this lack of self-respect and
self-esteem to the yeitzer hora -- the evil inclination. He
continued, "First, the evil inclination tries to have a person feel
inferior and guilty. Once a person feels a sense of guilt and
worthlessness, then he is easy prey for being trapped by the evil
inclination... " (Growth Through Torah", Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, on
Parsha Sh'mot, pages 158-159)
We learn that even as early as the end of Parsha Vayigash, the B'nai
Yisrael was losing it's connection with Torah and Eretz Yisrael and
sought to assimilate, to be as an Egyptian.
I return again to part of a book review which I recently wrote on a
book of short, almost Biblical stories. At the end of one story, the
fictional character "Duaf'" concludes his account of the times of
Yosef to the local scribe; "What Yosef did for Egypt is one of the
great tales of this dynasty. Greater even than the victories over
Nubia and the Assyrians. Yosef saved the empire from famine and
starvation. There is no doubt that, together with his Majesty and
the other Pharohs, he will be remembered forever in the chronicles of
Egypt."
I suggested in the close of the book review on "The Megillah of
Tabriz and other Almost Bible Stories" that there is a moral to the
story of "Duaf of Memphis" although it is not spelled out in the
book. Jews should never think that by playing up to the Goyim, by
attempting to emulate them or by trying to be just like them or by
assimilating with them, that they will love us or be our friends.
For we see all that Yosef did for Egypt and how quickly Pharoh and
the Mitzrayim didn't remember Yosef and enslaved the Jews.
Sadly, this moral has not been learned, internalized and
intellectualized time and time again, including in our contemorary
times.
As I recall back to the Six Day War, the entire world stood in awe of
the tiny army of Israel after the mauling she gave the Arab Nation
when they rose up and tried to destroy her. But we became haughty,
fat and complacent and suffered losses from a surprise attack six
years later followed by collective trauma, countless political
machinations and chesbonot, addiction to billions of US aid $$ to
fuel the self-interests and aggrandizement of the monopolists. We
became wrought with increasing self-doubt and self-perceived
weakness. Yosef Q. Israeli lost his faith in and connection with
Hashem. Instead of "Ein Breira" and a love for Eretz Yisrael,
Yidddishkeit and Kol Ha'aretzShelanu are branded extremist, rascist,
fascist.
And so the B'nai Yisrael has been gradually sold and dumbed-down by
the Memshelet, the Government on the perception of itself as mere
grasshoppers who carry "....a burden too great to bear" as
"...beggars who must keep quiet."
IY'H, that B'nai Yisrael comes to our collective senses and finally
sees the imperative dangers, both within and without, and acts to
defeat them. May we not lose further valuable Jewish neshamot to
the machinations and chesbonot of the anti-Torah politically
self-interested. In the merit of our collective unity, emunah and
actions, may we be zocha to compell Hashem to do what he want's to
do, to bring us Moshiach, the Geula Shlaima, and an end to low, dirty
politics, political equivocation, perfidy and false cheshbonot;
Achshav, Chik Chuk, Meiyad, Etmol!!
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Another Innovation from The Sefer Torah Recycling Network;
<http://www.sefer-torah.com/SimchaVort.htm> SimchaVort
Do you need help in developing a word of Torah for your Simcha?
If so, SimchaVort can help. Kindly send an email to
<mosheb at sefer-torah.com> telling me what the Simcha is, who it's for
and what Parsha it's in. In exchange for your kind donation
to<http://www.sefer-torah.com/sponsorship.htm> The Sefer Torah
Recycling Network, I'll be glad to help with ideas. For an example,
please click on
<http://www.sefer-torah.com/SimchaVort.htm>SimchaVort. .
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Donors in the US, please make tax deductible donation checks out to
"Congregation Ahavas Torah Tzedakah Fund", with a note on both the
Memo line of the check and on the envelope "Mark Burt & Sefer Torah
Recycling Network" and mail to "Congregation Ahavas Torah Tzedakah
Fund", 1425 Rhawn Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19111. Be sure to
include your address. Upon request, a tax-deductible receipt for
your donation will be mailed to you.
Donors in Canada, please make your tax deductible checks out to
"JBRASS" (BN#864426911RR0001) and mail to; "The Sefer Torah Recycling
Network", 46 Meadowbrook Road, Apt. 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6B
2S6. Please mark on the envelope (and if possible attach a stick'em
memo to the check) saying "Mark Burt & Sefer Torah Recycling
Network." Upon receipt, a tax-deductible receipt for your donation
will be mailed to you.
Donors can make an Online donation via<https://www.paypal.com>
paypal. Simply copy the email address; <mosheb at sefer-torah.com>,
then click on the <https://www.paypal.com/>paypal link, and paste
the copied email address onto the "Recipient's email" field.
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Spotlight on two locations slated to receive Sifrei Torah:
Homesh, in the Shomron (Sameria) region of Eretz Yisrael amd is
located amongst a group of communities including Kedumim, Elon Moreh,
Shavei Shomron, Einav, etc. which are in close proximity to the Arab
cities of Shechem, Kalkilya, etc. The Yishuv has many Russian olim
who have become Ba'al Teshuva in addition to many Dati families who
have moved there in recent years from other locations. Upon
completion of the restoration of a Sefer Torah donated by a family
in Baltimore, its placement in Homesh will be fulfillment of a nearly
5 year old promise to Rabbi Yehoshua Schmidt. I met Rav Schmidt, the
Rav of both Yishuv Shavei Shomron and Yishuv Homesh, while living and
doing Ulpan on Shavei Shomron.
The second Sefer Torah, once funds are raised and the restoration
work is completed, will be placed in a Kehilla of Yishuv Bat Ayin
which is located in Gush Etzion. It will be the recipient of a Sefer
Torah donated by a student of the School of Safrus located there.
Just a few words on Bat Ayin. I visited there recently for the first
time in many years. The Yishuv has grown 10-fold in the 9 years
since The Sefer Torah Recycling Network placed it's first Sefer Torah
there in 1995. It was more beautiful then I remember it. Hopefully,
I will go there for Shabbos in the near future and will have more to
write then.
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Inspiring Sefer Torah Stories from
Around the World
<http://www.jafi.org.il/arts/2003/oct/1.htm>"I Brought the Torah
Scrolls with Me From Syria!" - The story of how a Syrian Jew
smuggled Torah Scrolls into Israel.
<http://cbsnewyork.com/mideast/mideast_story_021174152.html>The Sefer
Torah which Flew on the Columbia. The Story of the Torah scroll which
accompanied Israel's Astranaut, Ilan Ramon OBM on that fateful
Columbia Shuttle Mission.
A Sefer Torah Story from "GUARDIAN OF JERUSALEM" the life and times
of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld is entitled
<http://www.innernet.org.il/archives/guardian.htm>"Solving The
Crime." Click on the link and arrow down to the story.
<http://scheinerman.net/judaism/stories/justice.html>"Purchasing
Justice" - between rich and poor, by Rabbi Scheinerman. A lesson
for all of B'nai Yisrael.
Sifrei Torah in Iraq
In surfing the net looking for pertinent sites related to Sifrei
Torah, I stumbled upon this site, which has apparently been inactive
since fall, 2002. It is called
<http://www.dangoor.com/scribe.html>"The SCRIBE" . You can view the
site and it's interesting stories by clicking on the title.
More Sefer Torah Stories
I feel that this inspiring story written by Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn
which appears on the Jewish World Review website bears repeating. It
is entitled <http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0403/sole.html>
"Healing a trampled sole".
But Rabbi Krohn's story is not the only such Holacaust Sefer
Torah/Shoe story. The Amcha (Israel Center for Holacaust Survivers)
site features another such story,
<http://www.amcha.org/Survivors_Stories.html> "My Shoes", by Rachel.
Click on the link and arrow down to the story.
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Did you know that you can now help in five ways to assist in
locating donors of Sifrei Torah and raising funds to accomplish our
mission?
1/ Talk to your friends, relatives and acquaintances about The Sefer
Torah Recycling Network and about the many needy communities in Eretz
Yisrael who do not possess their own Sifrei Torah. Many Shuls have
aging Congregations and Sifrei Torah in their Aron HaKodesh laying
idle, not being lained from. Many active Shuls have excess Sifrei
Torah which are not in use due to restoration work needed or because
the Shul has newer Sifrei Torah. These S'forim, if in Kosher or
restorable condition, are desperately needed by communities in
EretzYisrael who do not have the financial resources to acquire new
Sifrei Torah and would greatly appreciate the donation of a used
Sefer Torah.
2/ Donors in the US, please make tax deductible donation checks out
to "Congregation Ahavas Torah Tzedakah Fund", with a note on both the
Memo line of the check and on the envelope "Mark Burt & Sefer Torah
Recycling Network" and mail to "Congregation Ahavas Torah Tzedakah
Fund", 1425 Rhawn Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19111. Be sure to
include your address. Upon request, a tax-deductible receipt for
your donation will be mailed to you.
>>>NEW<<<
Donors in Canada, please make your tax deductible checks out to
"JBRASS" (BN#864426911RR0001) and mail to; "The Sefer Torah Recycling
Network", 46 Meadowbrook Road, Apt. 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6B
2S6. Please mark on the envelope (and if possible attach a stick'em
memo to the check) saying "Mark Burt & Sefer Torah Recycling
Network." Upon receipt, a tax-deductible receipt for your donation
will be mailed to you.
3/ Donors can participate in a
<http://www.sefer-torah.com/sponsorship.htm>Sponsorship Donation
program.
4/ Donors can make an Online donation via<https://www.paypal.com>
paypal. Simply copy the email address; <mosheb at sefer-torah.com>,
then click on the <https://www.paypal.com/>paypal link, and paste
the copied email address
onto the block called "Recipient's email".
5/ The Sefer Torah Network currently has affiliations with
<http://www.artscroll.com/linker/sefertorahnetwork/home>Artscroll and
<http://www.soncino.com/search.asp?REFERER=SeferTorahNetwork>Soncino
publishers and
<http://www.ahuva.com/store/search.asp?REFERER=SeferTorahNetwork>Ahuva
Judaica whereby subscribers to the Sefer Torah Network News list as
well as surfers to the <http://www.sefer-torah.com>The Sefer Torah
Recycling Network website can now help finance the project's mission
simply by purchasing S'forim or Judaica from these publishers and
Judaica Supplier. All it takes is clicking on any of the above links
or the links on the website.
We have also recently added an affiliation link
to<http://www.qksrv.net/click-1346029-1456053> IDT (as shown above.)
The Sefer Torah Network continues to seek affiliations with other
Judaica publishers as well as with other online Judaica merchants in
order to generate funds toward defraying project costs.
Please give your Support, Financial Donations/ Donations of
Used Sifrei Torah. Make Needy Locations throughout
Israel Mokomot Torah
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Locations in need of their own Sifrei Torah;
I want to relate to you the contents of emails which have been
received describing some of the newest needy locations.
Among the new locations writing of their need for a Sefer Torah are
Tzur Hadassah -- only a short distance from Ramat Beit Shemesh.
They lack an Ashkenaz Sefer Torah. It is a Yishuv of 2,000 people.
It is popiulated mostly by Secular/Traditional, but has a small, but
growing religious population. They have S'fardi, joint
Ashkenazi-S'fardi and Ashkenaz Minyanim.
The Ashkenaz Minyan which is in need of a Sefer Torah a mix of Olim
(incl US, Australia, UK, Swiss, Belgian, France) as well as veteran
Israeli, all leaning towards Dati Leumi.
In Betar, the Main Beit Knesset is lacking two Sifrei Torah. There
are two other Batei Knesset which need one each.
Beitar's Main Beit Knesset's Sefardi Minyan, is a combination of
North African, Syrian, Yerushalmi, Bavli & European S'fardim.
The other two Betar Batei Knesset are Ashkenazi/Hassidi with a varied
mixture of men from all over the world.
In Yishuv Meitzad, the home of the Goldstein family who founded the
Diaspora Yeshiva in the Old City, in Jerusalem, an AshkenazSefer
Torah is needed.
In Ramat Beit Shemesh "Aleph", Beit Knesset Kehillat Beis Tefillah
which currently davens in an enclosed area in back of the building
next to my building, but who recently broke ground for building a
Beit Knesset, needs it's own Sefer Torah as the two S'forim in their
Aron HaKodesh are both on loan.
Also in Ramat Beit Shemesh "Aleph", Kehillah Ahavat B'Simcha, a
Carlebach Minyan is in need of a Sefer Torah.
In Jerusalem, Yeshiva Machon Meir is in need of an Ashkenaz Sefer Torah.
These are just a few of the many locations all over Israel in need
their own Sifrei Torah. To view more such locations, please view The
Sefer Torah website.
As one lover of Eretz Yisrael to another, I'm sure that you share my
wish that every location in Eretz Yisrael, regardless of economic
means, be Mokomot Torah (a place of Torah). And imagine the level
of Kedusha when all of the neshamot who have lained from, touched and
kissed a Sefer Torah in the past, in it's previous home, unite with
all of the neshamot yet to lain from, touch and kiss the Sefer Torah
here in EretzYisroel.
At this time in history, with the advent of the latest Oslo
spin-offs, "Geneva" and the mis-directed "Roadmap" both of which
endanger Israel, the kedusha of Eretz Yisrael, Jewish Sovereignty
and very survival, we need your help, both by way of donations of
Sifrei Torah and by way of donations of funds in order to fulfill our
mission of placing Sifrei Torah in needy locations throughout Israel,
thus possessing Our Land, IY'H insuring our survival. We hope to
raise seed funds in order to set up an Amutah or a Non-Profit Company
in Israel, to employ Sofrim to restore Sifrei Torah, to locate donors
of, or economically purchase Sifrei Torah via all medium. The plan
is also to eventually establish a 501-C3 Non-profit organization in
the US and thus establish The Sefer Torah Recycling Network an
ongoing, serious project.
Your Support, Financial Donations & Donations of
Sifrei Torah Will Help Needy Locations throughout Israel
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Up Close and Personal:
Kehilla Beis Tefillah, Ramat Beit Shemesh;
A link has been added on the links page of the
<http://www.sefer-torah.com>site for a very special Beit Knesset in
Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel; <http://www.beistefillah.org>Kehilla Beis
Tefillah. Land has been broken, preliminary retaining wall work has
been completed and the Shul is moving ahead with the building of a
new Beit Knesset structure to be completed sometime next year.
Ramat Beit Shemesh is the fastest growing community in Israel and
<http://www.beistefillah.org>Kehilla Beis Tefillah, led by Rav Chaim
Malinowitz, among it's most dynamic Shuls. Friends, when you make
your pilot trips in the course of your Aliya planning, have your
Aliya date at hand or have arrived and are searching for a wonderful
community and full-service Beit Knesset (Tefillah, Kesher, an
outstanding Rav, daily Night Seder and dynamic Learning Programs,
Avos U'Bonim, Youth Mishmar and American warmth, caring and
closeness), your first stop's gotta be Kehillat Beis Tefillah.
Financial donations toward the <http://www.beistefillah.org>Shul's
building fund are greatly appreciated. When donating, please tell
them that you read about the Shul here.
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