HOLOCAUST TORAH PROCESSION, PASSING FROM OLDER GENERATION TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION
Manny Saks
We will pass Torah scrolls, saved from the Holocaust, from one generation to the next. This symbolic act not only links the generations to each other, but it serves also to bind those generations to the holy Torah.
These sefrei Torah represent many things to our people. Contained within them is our story and history, the telling of creation and redemption, and of G-d's revelation through the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. The Torah is called the Etz Chayim, the tree of life. It is, in fact, treated with the same respect as a human life - we kiss it, dress it, even count it as a tenth a minyan. These Torahs are particularly precious to us because unlike so many lives and so many sifrei Torahs lost in the Shoah, these were remarkably saved.
We embrace this opportunity to gently pass these Torah scrolls as we pass on the precious legacy from one generation to the next.
