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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Jerusalem hospital commissions Torah scroll in memory of employees’ loved ones killed on and since Oct. 7
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRenee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center, a major private hospital in Jerusalem, is having a Torah scroll written in memory of the members of its community who have been killed or fallen in battle in the current war.
The project is an initiative of Shaare Zedek employees, and the completed Torah will reside and be used in the hospital’s synagogue.
“We hope that a Torah scroll in the hospital aimed at elevating the souls of the fallen souls will always remind those who pray and use the scroll that they are in a place that adds life,” said Rabbi Shmuel Slotki, whose wife Talia is a nurse at Shaare Zedek.
The Slotkis’ sons Noam and Yishai were killed by Hamas terrorists when they left their homes the morning of October 7 to answer desperate calls for help from residents of Kibbutz Alumim who reported they were under murderous attacks by terrorists.
Shaare Zedek is administering a crowdfunding campaign for the project. Since the campaign’s recent launch a month after the start of the war, NIS 65,000 ($17,000) of the required NIS 250,000 ($65,000) has been raised.
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