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Levaya of 3 Burnt Pomona Torah Scrolls

2.6K views · Apr 21, 2024

Naftali Kempeh

An emotional Levaya was held for three Torahs destroyed in a fire at the Chabad Shul in Pomona, NY.

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for testing can ask theam to come a little closer to the stage there seats foron yesterday morning around 5:30 I wake up to prepare to give a shear Shak and I turned on my phone and I see on the whatsaap chat in Pomona there's a commotion and people are posting different videos pictures I call upali I said what's going on he says senta fire I asked him who house says AR few hours later there was chatter on the chat sa is there in a safe in a firepro Pro safe then we got the that the three catas were unfortunately damaged and unsalvageable I want to call up to start this mad this is aad of of it's a time of I want to call up one of the founders of this beautiful community of this beautiful SCH Maris to come up and say capital for [Music] years ago in a town of Gat sha Ines there was an incident robbers Bandits came into a sh they wrecked Havoc they destroyed the entire sh and amongst the destruction there was also that they destroyed and the the came to the and asked him I can't tell you how manyon we spoke to yesterday who are fluid andas of and when it came to these alas they said it's beyond me I never learned these alas please ask another R and this R came and asked the rebba what do we do over here and the rebba wrote to him different different lessons different

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