Torah dedication at B’nai Avraham celebrates family and life
The joy of a wedding poured out onto the streets of Brooklyn Heights on Sunday, with the bride adorned in deep, vivid colors of velvet. The groom was the people of Congregation B’nai Avraham, the neighborhood’s first Orthodox synagogue, and the bride was the Torah.
Zvi Mor and his family donated the Torah in memory of Mor’s brother, Chaim, who died childless two years ago at age 69. “Chaim means LIFE,” he told the Heights Press on Sunday during the event.
Likewise, Rabbi Aaron Raskin, spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Avraham and a Chabad Chassid, said, “Having a good name is better than having good children. Therefore, there can be no greater way to perpetuate one’s name than by dedicating a gift of Torah that will be in the shul at all times, and that will be read over and over again. And every time the Torah is read, and people are called to make Aliyah and read the Torah, it will be perpetuated again and again.”