A massive fire ripped through the Bais Hamedrash in Camp Maminim / Camp Chaveirim in Swan Lake, Friday afternoon.
Fire departments from more than a dozen towns in Sullivan County were on the scene at the camp, located at 169 Laymon Road, just before 6:00 PM.
Bichasdei Hashem, no one was injured in the blaze, and thankfully, the Sefer Torah was not in the building.
Sources tell YWN that tragically, nearly TWO HUNDRED pairs of tefillin were reportedly destroyed in the blaze, as the entire building was engulfed in flames and has totally burned down to the ground.
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6 Responses
While the tefillin are a great loss, perhaps the headline might read ” Bichasdei Hashem, no one hurt in massive fire at summer camp”. Its not a “tragedy” in the sense that tefillin can be replaced whereas the well-being of the campers is clearly the highest concern.
I possess 2 pairs of תפילין:- Does someone need to borrow my 2nd set, until his new set arrives from 🇮🇱?
@Gadolhadorah
tefillin cannot just “be replaced”. that’s like telling the mother “just have a new baby”.
@147
There are sofrim writing everything in the US. There are plenty of people who sell STA”M in the US. Nobody has to wait. Although I’m sure they appreciate your offer.
There are clearly messages from Hashem in the way attacks on Eretz Yisrael from far distances (Iran, Yemen) are followed by burning of Sifrei Torah and Tefillin in America. What the specific messages are, we can only speculate. But what the general message is we can learn from the Bracha of Bilaam that Hashem is taking out His wrath on non-living items rather than on people.
There must be insurance, no?