By COLlive reporter
Residents of the Nachlas Har Chabad neighborhood in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi are still in shock over the fall of a sefer Torah.
Halachic commentaries say that a sefer Torah that was humiliated by falling to the ground signals the responsibility and fault of the locals.
The scroll fell from the Aron Kodesh in the right-hand minyan room in the central Chabad shul in the neighborhood, home to a mix of Russian born and Sephardic Jews.
The city’s Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda Yaroslavsky called a public fast day on one of the coming Monday-Thursday-Monday dates, the 10th, 13th or the 17th of the month of Cheshvan 5775.
In a letter to the community, Rabbi Yaroslavsky did not accuse anyone of premeditated crime. He said that the Torah “fell by accident” from the ark due to a faulty structure.
“Even those who were not there at the time of the fall of the Sefer Torah need to fast,” he said in the letter and suggested that money is contributed for the reinforcement of the ark.
ה” ישמור!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!צום קל!
Does everyone need to fast or just people in that community.?
…and I am far from Kiryat malachi…
people that dont live there have to fast?