# 3573 Some Words on Missing Words
Last year after we read Parshas Shkalim on Shabbos, when the Gabai was preparing that Sefer Torah for it’s next use, he realized that some letters of that old Sefer Torah were erased and the Sefer was not Kosher. Did we have to read Parshas Shekalim again next Shabbos?
Ginas Verodim (O.H. 1: 35) deals with a case in which the congregation forgot to read Parsha Shekalim and rules that it should be read next Shabbos.
Shabbos Umoadim (p. 149) maintains that one does not have to read it in the above case, since the obligation to read it is only historical as ’Veneshalma Porim Sefasenu,’ to remember the days of the Beis Hamikdosh.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion, as quoted by Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a is that you can be yotze (comply) with a Sefer Torah that is missing some words.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: February 24, 2022