Emotional Hachnasas Sefer Torah Held in Vienna’s Khal Chassidim
A hachnasas sefer Torah was held on Monday in Vienna’s Khal Chassidim shul. The new sefer Torah was dedicated by members of the shul and brought in to the shul, which is led by Harav Avraham Yonah Schwartz, shlita, following a procession through the streets of Vienna.
This was the first hachnasas sefer Torah that the city had in a number of years.
An emotional moment was marked when during the procession, Mr. Yisochor Ber Kern, an elderly member of the community and Holocaust survivor, asked that the music should stop and he recited the brachah of “She’asah li nes bamakom hazeh” while holding the sefer Torah, at the exact place where he was saved from the Nazis some 83 years ago.
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