Q. Recently someone donated a Sefer Torah in honor of the Kedoshim of the Holocaust. Before giving it to the shul he attends, the terror attack in Neve Yaakov on the Shabbos night (Friday Jan. 27) Parshas Bo occurred, and he lost there a dear friend.
Can he also now donate the Sefer Torah in his memory and include his name on the cover of the Sefer Torah?
A. Horav Dovid Pam Shlit’a and Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a maintain that it depends if the Sefer Torah was written when having in mind the Shoah Kedoshim and dedicated to them, so the past holiness is already done, established and cannot be changed.
However, if the Sefer was acquired after already being written and will be dedicated for the Kedoshim at the time of the Hachnassas Sefer Torah ceremony and the writing of the last letters, the Kedoshim of Neve Yaakov terror attack could also be added then.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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