Like every year, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch received the smallest Sefer Torah in the world on the night of Hoshanah Rabbah.
In the past, the Sefer Torah was used by HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl.
HaRav Shternbuch was videoed dancing with the Sefer Torah around his neck on Motzei Simchas Torah with his talmidim at his yeshivah in Beit Shemesh.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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On a similar, yet wholly different note, the מלך of Klal Yisroel had to have/hold a ספר תורה all day. Likely it may have been similar in size! No?
@Yaapchik: it took me a minute to figure put what sefer Torah in the video they were talking about.
It’s a tiny two inch one.
It is nearly impossible to write this small without intense magnification and possibly some sort of stabilization. It also cannot be read without magnification.
Therefore, I highly doubt that what מלכי ישראל wrote and carried was quite this small.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a miniature one, just not this miniature.
@Yaapchik the gemarra in Sanhedrin says he would wear it on a chain attached to his wrist. See the Rashash there.
There are much smaller. I have read from them many times.
Lurker, you clearly don’t realize which Sefer Torah they’re referring to – not the ones next to him but the very miniscule one hanging from an atara-like band around his neck.
Your right. Didn’t see it. The one i leined from probably twice that size.