TORAH SCROLL DESTINED FOR THE TEMPLE MOUNT
This past Thursday, 30th Tishrei (October 23th) the Temple Institute hosted a 'hachnasat Sefer Torah,' the traditional celebration held when a newly written Torah scroll is dedicated and 'escorted' with joyous song and dance to its designated location. This particular Sefer Torah was dedicated to the memory of Sara Lisha, (may G-d avenge her blood), who was murdered by Arab terrorists fourteen years ago. This is no ordinary Torah scroll: it was especially commissioned and written with the intention to be used by Jewish worshipers in a Beit Knesset (synagogue) to be built on the Temple Mount. Until that synagogue is built, the family of Sara Lisha decided to bring the Sefer Torah to the Temple Institute where it will be housed in a place of honor in the Institute's Holy Temple Visitors Center, alongside the many sacred Temple vessels created by the Temple Institute, which are also destined to be moved one day from the Institute to their rightful place in the Holy Temple.
The Torah was carried, with song and dance, from the Maaleh Hazeitim neighborhood on the Mount of Olives, which overlooks the Temple Mount from the east, and where the Sefer Torah has been temporarily housed, into the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's old city, and into the Temple Institute's Holy Temple Visitors Center. May we soon be reading from this holy Torah scroll in the courtyards of the Holy Temple.
This past Thursday, 30th Tishrei (October 23th) the Temple Institute hosted a 'hachnasat Sefer Torah,' the traditional celebration held when a newly written Torah scroll is dedicated and 'escorted' with joyous song and dance to its designated location. This particular Sefer Torah was dedicated to the memory of Sara Lisha, (may G-d avenge her blood), who was murdered by Arab terrorists fourteen years ago. This is no ordinary Torah scroll: it was especially commissioned and written with the intention to be used by Jewish worshipers in a Beit Knesset (synagogue) to be built on the Temple Mount. Until that synagogue is built, the family of Sara Lisha decided to bring the Sefer Torah to the Temple Institute where it will be housed in a place of honor in the Institute's Holy Temple Visitors Center, alongside the many sacred Temple vessels created by the Temple Institute, which are also destined to be moved one day from the Institute to their rightful place in the Holy Temple.
The Torah was carried, with song and dance, from the Maaleh Hazeitim neighborhood on the Mount of Olives, which overlooks the Temple Mount from the east, and where the Sefer Torah has been temporarily housed, into the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's old city, and into the Temple Institute's Holy Temple Visitors Center. May we soon be reading from this holy Torah scroll in the courtyards of the Holy Temple.
This past Thursday, 30th Tishrei (October 23th) the Temple Institute hosted a 'hachnasat Sefer Torah,' the traditional celebration held when a newly written Torah scroll is dedicated and 'escorted' with joyous song and dance to its designated location. This particular Sefer Torah was dedicated to the memory of Sara Lisha, (may G-d avenge her blood), who was murdered by Arab terrorists fourteen years ago. This is no ordinary Torah scroll: it was especially commissioned and written with the intention to be used by Jewish worshipers in a Beit Knesset (synagogue) to be built on the Temple Mount. Until that synagogue is built, the family of Sara Lisha decided to bring the Sefer Torah to the Temple Institute where it will be housed in a place of honor in the Institute's Holy Temple Visitors Center, alongside the many sacred Temple vessels created by the Temple Institute, which are also destined to be moved one day from the Institute to their rightful place in the Holy Temple.
The Torah was carried, with song and dance, from the Maaleh Hazeitim neighborhood on the Mount of Olives, which overlooks the Temple Mount from the east, and where the Sefer Torah has been temporarily housed, into the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's old city, and into the Temple Institute's Holy Temple Visitors Center. May we soon be reading from this holy Torah scroll in the courtyards of the Holy Temple. TempleInstitute