In a unique photo, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is seen wearing a yarmulke and tzitzis as he writes a letter in a Sefer Torah. According to Chabad Online, the prime minister was being photographed as part of a Tourism Ministry tourist campaign.
The prime minister was asked to write a letter in a Sefer Torah that will be part of Chabad on Masada. Chabad shaliach Rabbi Elharar had Mr. Netanyahu put on tzitzis before writing.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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19 Responses
does it make it passul if someone that wants to uproot torah learning writes a letter in it?
secondly, it sounds like the story in the gemara where the king killed all the talmidei chachamim except one and said torah will still be around in the corner (the aron) (the king turned into a tzeduki)
Did the shliach also make Bibi get that Chabad Tattoo on his left forearm?
what is the halachik status of this sefer torah now , kosher or passul?
Very Nice. That’s ones of the great
Things about Israel.
Did anybody else notice that tattoo Bibi is sporting on his left arm in the above photo?
oy vey – an itar yad!?!?!
nyfunnyman – What’s wrong with an itar yad? A lefty is 100
% kosher to write a sefer torah [look up the halacha] …
No poskim even bring a machlokes about that.
Sefer Torah shekossov boi min?
PEOPLE PLEASE GET A LIFE!!! that is not a tatoo sponsoring chabad, it is a watermark across the page that happens to line up with his arm to protect the copyright of the picture… SHEESHH
Kol hakovod to Chabad.
PS That is not a tatoo, its a watermark from the chabad website COL
I am not a Posek, or a Rabbi or anything special, but I think this sefer Torah is Kosher- Bibi is as Jewish as Moses.
And that isn’t a tattoo.
the Sefer Torah is for sure POSUL, being written in part by a Mechalell Shabbos!!!!!!!
TheReader- yes i know. i was just lamenting b/c the rav of my shul wouldn’t let a lefty write a letter when we recently had a hachnasas sefer torah, even though i showed him the halacha clearly states you can.
Why is he writing in the Torah with his left hand??
Lubavich what sweet typshim they mean so well ain lohem sechel
It stands to reason that a Mechalel Shabbos Befarhesia, and also enables a government that supports various Shilul Shabbos, is NOT kosher to write a Sefer Torah. You have to believe in what you write…
i dont know if this halacha applies here, but there are scenarios where a person can do an action and another person can be supplying the daas and lishma. especially in this situation because i don’t think bibi has a clue how to write a letter in a sefer torah , so the sofer is really running the show.
Talmud student: he knows how to write as well as you or me
Heretohelp: yes you’re not a posek. Not all Jews are permitted to write.
Has the possibility that he’s just filling in a letter, the outline of which has already been written and is kosher without the “filling,” occurred to any of you armchair poskim?