The local Jewish community gathered this week to see the final letters inked on NanaimoB次元官网网址檚 first-ever Torah scroll.
Chabad of Nanaimo and Central Vancouver Island hosted a Torah completion ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Inn on Long Lake.
Expert ritual scribe Rabbi Yechiel Baitelman, director of Chabad Richmond, was on hand to ink the final Hebrew letters on the scroll that was months in the making.
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Rabbi Bentzi Shemtov, director of Chabad of Nanaimo, said the Torah in Nanaimo will have the exact same letters as the Torah found anywhere else in the world.
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Shemtov said Nanaimo has had a borrowed Torah until now, and said for the community to have its own copy is meaningful.
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The ceremony included a procession, music and dancing. The Torah will be kept at the Chabad of Nanaimo centre.
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