History Made in Vietnam!
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — History was made in Vietnam in the beginning of this week. For the first time since the revelation of the Giving of the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai over 3,000 years ago, a Torah Scroll has been dedicated for the Jewish community in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
The Torah scroll was donated by Mr. Meir Jacobson a businessman from Israel in memory of his rabbi, Rabbi Nathan Bokovza of blessed memory.
Many local Jewish residents attended the event as well as a number of prominent guests from abroad like the head Chabad emissary to Asia, Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon, Rabbi Yosef Hartman, father of the Chabad emissary in Vietnam and a very close friend of the Chabad House in Vietnam, Rabbi Yaakov Katz.
The Torah Scroll was written in Israel and cause as a lot of excitement and emotions among the Jews in Vietnam, this was their first time in their lives that they attended such a ceremony.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hartman, the Chabad emissary to Vietnam, said that the dedication of the Torah Scroll is only a the beginning of new Jewish life in the city and he hopes that this event will encourage Jews in Ho Chi Minh to attend the synagogue more often and indeed some of the Jews attending resolved to be more active in the synagogue.
the boss
wow amazing
Amazing News
Amazing! A sefer torah in Ho Chi Minh!
Isn’t it VI-ET-NAM not VI-YET-NAM? The sign is missing a Hebrew equivalent.
spelling
to ‘amazing news’,
you are correct! It is very important to get the spelling right because when he will G-d willing make weddings there the K’subo would be incorrect otherwise.
Someone that was there
Wow, Its grew pretty fast ever since simchas torah, when I and the rabbi went in the streets shouting Chag Sameach, calling out for jews. Kol hakavod on all rabbi hartman’s mesiras nefesh.