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With God’s help

My friends, brothers, and neighbors are pleased to be with me on this day of heartfelt joy, the day marking
seventy years of life and good years. The day I inaugurate the great Beit Midrash Omri Sofer in the city
of the Torah Beitar Illit, which I built in splendor and glory, and placed there a Torah that I transcribed,
everything for the soul of the great sage, my teacher and rabbi of Omri Sofer, ZTSVK"L, whose memory
is yearned by every soul.

My soul has been connected to his soul for many years. From the time I had the privilege of going to his
gates and spent time under his wings in study at his holy yeshiva in Jerusalem, the Holy City, may it soon
be built in our time, Amen, and “hurt his son and learned way of life “and I have since been dedicated to
him and supported his endeavors and institutions, and here is not the place to elaborate.

In honor of this emotional event, I had built an exceptional and unique Torah Crown, handcrafted by the
great craftsman, Mr. Gabriel Rosen of Miami. The pure gold crown resembles the Torah Crown of the holy
Ruzhiner Rebbe ZTSVK"L, which I saw in book of Judaica by Jay Weinstein.

In Monsey, USA, I inaugurated the great building, Talmud Torah for 600 students, in the name of the holy
sage Admor Ribnitzer Rebbe ZTSVK"L.

Praise God, praise his great mercy for me from the day I left the land of communist Romania penniless and
brought me in his great mercy to the protection of the Torah at the yeshiva of the teacher and rabbi, the
holy sage Erlau Rebbe ZTSVK"L. Even after I left there, I have been accompanied by the hand of supreme
providence with a special heavenly presence at every step, especially the great privilege that has fallen
to me to purchase and save Torah scrolls, Judaica, and sacred objects of the sages and righteous men of
the ages for the future.

In this book, I share with you a number of the marvelous Judaica objects stored in my collection, especially
the exceptional and unique object – the pure gold menorah attributed to the holy Ruzhiner Rebbe
ZTSVK"L. I searched for this hannukiah for a long time, and God in his great mercy and grace blessed my
effort.

Once, a great antiquities dealer came to my home to offer me his wares, my eyes lit up when I saw a gold
hannukiah in the Baal Shem Tov style. It was the first time that I had encountered such a hannukiah. As
is known, there are only such hannukiahs from the 1830s through the 1860s, and they are all made of
silver. Until now, no pure gold hannukiah from the era of Baal Shem Tov was known.

I asked the dealer to leave the hannukiah with me for research, and I began the research work that I carry
out for every new object that I encounter. (Sometime, after the test, I return it to its owners due to doubt
about its value, and sometimes, when I understand and realize its value, I buy it).

-rus gnieb sti etipsed haroT eht fo ytic eht fo noitcetorp eht gnimussa rof L"KVSTZ sibbar dna srehcaet evoba eht yb nwonK
.ti revo esaec ton seod haroT eht fo eciov eht esuaceb ,sbarA gnitah-learsI yb dednuor

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