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More than 400 members of the local Jewish community recently joined local dignitaries and two-dozen rabbis from across Northern California to commemorate the completion of the new Torah Scroll at the Chabad of the Tri-Valley’s Center for Jewish Life on Hopyard Road.
The Torah is a 3,300-year-old sacred text (containing the Five Books of Moses) written on parchment comprised of 304,805 letters, all written by hand by a pious and skilled scribe, explained Rabbi Raleigh Resnick.
The April 15 event saw the scroll completed and attendees then marched the new Torah down Hopyard Road to celebrate the occasion. Rabbi Moshe Liberow of Colorado Springs, Colo., served as the scribe to write the final letters in the Torah Scroll.
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Rabbi Moshe Liberow of Colorado Springs, Colo., writing some of the final letters in the Torah Scroll for the Chabad of the Tri-Valley. (Photo courtesy of Chabad) -
The scribe, Rabbi Moshe Liberow of Colorado Springs, writes the final letter of the new Torah Scroll surrounded by Rabbi Raleigh Resnick and his family. (Photo courtesy of Chabad of the Tri-Valley) -
Pleasanton residents Lewis Zirogiannis and his son Gabriel dancing with the new community’s new and existing Torah scrolls. (Photo courtesy of Chabad of the Tri-Valley)
