The Chanting of Sefer Torah, by voices young and old, and male and female, is a beautiful sound in our Sanctuary. We encourage our congregants to learn Torah Trope and to chant Torah on Shabbat and Holidays. We are especially blessed when we hear our post- Bar and Bat Mitzvah students using their Torah skills to enhance our congregation's worship.

Four of our Torahs are dressed in beautiful contemporary-design covers representing Redemption, Gates of Heaven, Worship, and Creation. Our fifth is a Sephardic Torah, surrounded by a decorative silver case. (Torah covers made by: www.kuvinoren.com )

We hold in our Holy Ark a precious Sefer Torah which is one of 1,564 Czech Memorial Sifre Torah looted by the Nazis during World War II from the Jewish communities of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. This Sefer Torah is from the town of Pisek and was written in the middle of the 19th Century. Our special Torah is a memorial to the Jewish Community of Pisek and to all the Jewish martyrs of the Holocaust. This Torah, like others now spread throughout the world, spreads light as a harbinger of the future of Judaism and bears witness to the glory of God.

High Holy Day Torah Covers

At Selichot services each year, the year-round Torah covers are replaced with these beautiful white covers, two of which depict a mirror image design of Creation. Every High Holy Day season, the Congregation is awed anew when the ark curtains open on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, revealing these very special Torah covers.