By COLlive reporter
Congregation Chevra Shas, a long-time and central shul in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, is looking for their Sefer Torah, which was borrowed a few years ago and was never returned.
Menachem Slapochnik, the Gabbai of the Shul, asked COLlive.com to help track down the Torah, which was borrowed some time ago.
He related that a Shliach came to the Shul a few years ago, and asked Rabbi Mordechai Gurary obm, the Shul’s late Rov who passed away last year, to lend him a Torah.
“Rabbi Gurary gave him the Torah, and we never knew who the Shliach was,” Slapochnik says.
“We need the Torah to be returned because the donor needs it back,” the Gabbai said.
The Shul, located on Kingston Avenue at the corner of Montgomery Street, was recently renamed “Congregation Chevra Shas Bais Mordechai,” in memory of the late and beloved Rov.
He has requested that anyone with information on the Torah to please contact the Shul at 213-820-1360 to arrange for its return.
VIDEO: Siyum Sefer Torah in Chevra Shas in 2014
They should ask the shliach who they lent it to, seems like a pretty easy case to solve.
“‘Rabbi Gurary gave him the Torah, and we never knew who the Shliach was,’ Slapochnik says.”
So the only ones who know are R. Gurary in the olam haemes, and (yblch”t) the Shliach here on earth.
“And we never knew who the shliach was”
They dont know which Shliach it is!
Seems like they don’t know who the Shliach is, maybe only Rabbi Gurary knew…
they dont know who the shliach was
These “chsiidesheh gnaivos” always leave me uneasy. At the end of the day, the parties who help themselves to such precious items must be well aware that if the items are precious to them they are equally, if not more, precious to the original owner. In this particular case, the borrower can’t even convince himself that the item, i.e. the sefer torah, won’t be missed if he keeps it without permission. Though it’s probably very much used where it is now, it seems the original honor wanted it to be used davka in Chevra Shas. The donor’s wishes should be… Read more »