Since this is an Ashkenaz Sefer Torah, it will be attached to rollers, called in Hebrew – Eitzei Chayyim – Trees of Life.

It is customary to decorate the rollers to beautify the Torah scroll.

With great thanks to G-D, I am happy to announce that a donor has generously sponsored the rollers for the CTC Torah.

The proposed design for our rollers attached at the end of this post…

This is the current proposed design.  As always, your readership and partnership in this project is very important to us and we would love to get your thought, input, and feedback!

Please let us know what you think about these particular rollers:

Please note that any roller design we choose will include a silver dedication plate honoring the donor/sponsor.  The plate is circular and will affix at he base of the handle.

4 Comments »

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   Wow. That’s a beautiful design. A fitting way to honor the Torah and the Ribbono shel Ol-am.

   Comment by Yehudah Palmer — November 2, 2009 @ 3:35 pm

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   This design is with such deep beauty it is breath taking. You are doing kindness by sharing this design for all to see. This is showing much love to His children.

   Comment by Staral — November 15, 2009 @ 4:42 am

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   beautiful design–but,with all due respect,if this is ashkenaz,why is it in nusuch ari script?

   Comment by mishael keller — October 8, 2010 @ 2:15 pm

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   The shul I am writing for has two sifrei Torah currently, one ksav BY and another ksav Ari. Since they have no apparent hakpoda, and I write better in Ksav Ari, I chose to use the ksav. You’re probably asking because of the machlokes about the tzaddi hafucha. When I was learning safrus I asked a lot of shailos about this because I saw lots of Ashkenaz kehillos using ksav Ari zal and lots of Ashkenazi tefillin that used ksav Ari. The answer I got was that we do not hold that the Gaon’s shitto on the Tzaddi hafucha is ke-halacha; there is no hakpoda about using it. The only posek today who maintains the Gaon’s opposition is Rav Shternbuch. However, the vast majority of soferim do not agree with him. Both Rav Wosners (Rav Shmuel HaLevi and his grandson, Rav Avraham) have emphatically stated that there is no problem even lechatchila with Ashkenazi kehillos using ksav Ari. Rav Shtern in the Mishnas HaSofer also paskens this way. To make the point even further, Rav Shmuel haLevi Wosner tells over that he showed the Chazon Ish the Chasam Sofer’s shitto on the Tzaddi hafucha, which is mashma that the tzaddi hafucha is even lechatchila for Ashkenazim! Upon seeing it, the Chazon Ish told him that he couldn’t oppose the use of the Tzaddi hafucha anymore.

   It was good talking to you on the phone today! – Stay in touch!

   Comment by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel, Sofer — October 8, 2010 @ 2:58 pm

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