Chabad welcomes new Torah Scroll

A new Torah scroll was welcomed by the Chabad of Howard Beach on Sunday, June 7 with a celebration held at P.S. 207.
The Torah scroll, one of the Jewish people’s most sacred objects, has roughly 600,000 handwritten letters. With a feather and special mix for ink, the scribe writes the five books of Moses on roughly 54 pieces of parchment. The average process takes over a year to produce the beautiful workmanship of a Torah scroll.
Religious leaders say that when a scroll is completed it calls for great celebration by the city greeting it to its new home – the Holy Ark in the Synagogue.
Participants of the June 7 celebration, which began with a concert by famed Jewish musical artist Chaim Fogelman, helped expert scribe Rabbi Gad Sebag of Brooklyn complete the final letters of this scroll.
The Chabad of Howard Beach is a Jewish outreach, educational and social service organization.