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Fallen Sefer Torah Reveals Missing Letters

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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