Bi-Weekly Siyum Sefer Torah

By COLlive staff

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday to pay tribute to the late and beloved South Florida Shliach, Rabbi Dovid Bryn, as they launched the writing of a new Sefer Torah in memory.

Community members, Anash and local Shluchim shared their memories of the legendary Shliach and his uniquely aidel yet so accomplished personality on his 10th yahrzeit.

All in attendance at Chabad Chayil in Highland Lakes had a chance to write a letter, filling in the first few Pesukim of a Torah that will be a year and a half long project.

Every 2 weeks or so, there will be a Siyum of a Parsha in another person’s home, enabling the host/parsha sponsor to invite their friends, giving them all a chance to write a letter, said Rabbi Moishe Kievman who continues Bryn’s work.

For Rabbi Kievman, the yahrzeit is not merely a commemoration of Rabbi Bryn’s passing, but rather manifestation of the positive influence he had – and continues to have – on an entire community.

“Rabbi Bryn loved, lived, breathed and spread Torah to everyone he knew. The Torah scroll we, G-d willing, will write is a continuation of his legacy.”

While Rabbi Bryn had an extended family of thousands, it was his immediate family that provided an unseverable bond of love and a support system which helped him tend to his minions through adversity and joy.

“Hardly a week goes by that someone doesn’t tell me an uplifting story about my brother,” said Usher Bryn, Rabbi Bryn’s brother. “Ten years later, his memory is as vibrant as ever because of his many good deeds.”

The completion of the Sefer Torah will be celebrated together with the completion of the new Chabad House building, scheduled to break ground in the next few months.

A documentary of Rabbi Bryn is also in the works.

If you have a story you would like to share or if you would like to get a letter or parsha in the Dovid Bryn Sefer Torah, visit RabbiDovidBryn.org or call 305-770-1919.