Despite heavy snowfall, the Toronto community gathered to complete a new sefer Torah in memory of longtime rov, Harav Dovid Schochet AH, on his first yahrtzeit, dancing joyously through the snowy streets to the Chabad Gate shul where Harav Schochet led the community for many decades.
By Anash.org reporter
Despite heavy snowfall, the Toronto community gathered to complete a new sefer Torah written in memory of longtime rov, Harav Dovid Schochet AH. The event was held on his first yahrtzeit, Monday, 18 Shvat, 5785.
Shortly after their wedding, Harav Schochet and his wife moved to Toronto to serve as the Rebbe’s shluchim. They set up their home in the Downsview section of the city, where they quickly set about establishing a shul.
More than two decades later and after having presided over a boom in the entire city’s Jewish community, the Schochets packed their bags and moved north to the relatively undeveloped area of Thornhill. Taking a plot of land donated to the community by a local builder, they established the Chabad-Lubavitch Community Center there and spearheaded a mass migration north.
Over the next decades, Harav Schochet served in Toronto as rov and mara d’asra of the Chabad community, as well as a posek for the wider Toronto community.
The Toronto community showed up en masse to the siyum to participate in writing the final letters. They then danced joyously through the snowy streets to the shul at Chabad Gate where Harav Schochet led the community in recent decades.
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