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Fallen Sefer Torah Reveals Missing Letters
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Even when a Sefer Torah falls, there’s reason and hope to start over. A true story with an inspiring lesson.
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it happened two years ago since toro and
they had a minion in the state of tower
mordechai fishman was the gabba of that
minion was a group of about 30 families
and some ballroom that attended as well
and we were dancing it was labor day we
had a great time and suddenly as they
were dancing around and around
one of the people holding the safer
torah
bumped into somebody else
the safer slips out of his hand and
falls down to the floor and we all look
down and we're like
oh my goodness now you can imagine
going from simcha's torah to tish above
in just a minute
everybody stopped dancing
and everybody looked at that fellow who
had just dropped the safer torah and the
fellow turned white he ran out of shul
the second that happened was in shock
was totally
very very depressed nobody knew what to
do everybody knew it's trouble it means
we have to fast we have to give to dhaka
we're going to die who knows what's
going to happen people weren't sure what
to do some people were debating you know
they were in the school were they
looking were they not looking some
people are outside one foot in one foot
out everyone was trying to find a way
that they weren't actually there at the
time but we knew that we were actually
dancing was in front of us it happened
just right there
and we were just
in total shock mordekai fishman
decided you know what we can't allow
this mistake
to ruin the atmosphere somehow
we have to get everybody back into it
so he tried as hard as he could
to start dancing again and start singing
again
but nobody was into it anymore it was
over
everybody was just dragging along
nobody wanted to dance so he finished up
that coffee quickly and then he decided
you know what we're about to start the
torah again from gracious barolo kim as
ashman basaretz so he said let's use the
safetoru that fell
let's honor it
by starting over symbolically
hinting to everybody there that just
because the safer torah fell doesn't
mean we can't start over everybody
crowded around they called up haas and
gracias and meanwhile the man who
dropped the safety was still outside he
was crying he was beside himself he
didn't want to come back into the minion
as the fellow who was supposed to have
the ali approaches and he gets up there
and he makes the bracha
[Music]
amen
[Music]
oh man
they open the toro
and the balcora
doesn't start
he's quiet no new hefsik you got to
start the bronco was made
and he starts motioning to people he
says come here the valkyrie says
what is this
we're like what do you mean he's like
there's no voracious boro
what we always take a peek inside the
safer and we see that there's nothing
there the words viratious boro are
missing they're not there which means
that the safer torah that fell
wasn't even a safer term it wasn't a
puzzle safer tara it was never filled in
it's like a hummish we like wrapped the
safer up and we just ran five minutes
foul him out to the one who dropped the
safer and we're like you won't believe
this he's like what what just just leave
me alone he says like no no a safer
never felt and they brought him back and
the guy
breathed a sigh of relief thinking
themselves wow all right that was a
close call there was one israeli fellow
in the building
that knew the owner of this ephrata who
wasn't present in the minion and the
owner of the secretary was also israeli
so this israeli fellow calls the owner
that day literally like a couple of
minutes later and he says did you know
that
you're safer torah this puzzle it's not
even a secretary and he says what are
you talking about it's not a safe road i
have three computer checks people
checked it five times it's impossible
what are you talking about and he says
it's missing beratious boro like him so
he thinks himself and he says oh my
goodness
i just remembered when i commissioned
the sofa to write the torah the custom
is
that he leaves a couple of words at the
end for people to write it in before
the sofa called many said
some people like to fill in both
bookends of the torah so before i write
it i want to let you know i'm going to
leave the first couple of words blank
so you can fill in the book ends of the
torah and when they came to the cemetery
they totally forgot that they left the
first beginning out
when the man dropped to say for torah he
thought it was a kosher safety target he
thought it was a perfect safe for torah
and that's why he got so upset he was so
embarrassed he was so devastated because
of it as soon as you realize the safer
toyota wasn't perfect and because
of him dropping it as a result of the
fall
the safer torah became better he was
relieved if we can take that message
into our own lives and realize that we
are not perfect either we are a work in
progress
and every time we fall
it's an opportunity to grow and become
better and become kosher so instead of
being devastated instead of feeling bad
about every mistake we make every fall
we have let's utilize those
opportunities to open ourselves and
start over and fix the mistakes