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Yeshiva World News · Nov 11, 2026

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In a stunning story of hashgacha pratis, a German doctor who inherited a portrait of his mother discovered it had been painted on parchment cut from a Sefer Torah, looted during the Holocaust by his father, a Nazi official in Belarus. Some 80 years later, the holy parchment has been returned to the city of Bobruisk. The doctor reached out through Chabad of Munich, and Rabbi Yochanan Gordon met him and recognized the kesav ashuris. Based on a psak of Hagaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein zt"l, the parchment will be displayed in the shul in Bobruisk beside a Sefer Torah saved from the Nazis ym"s

In a stunning story of hashgacha pratis, a German doctor who inherited a portrait of his mother discovered it had been painted on parchment cut from a Sefer Torah, looted during the Holocaust by his father, a Nazi official in Belarus. Some 80 years later, the holy parchment has been returned to the city of Bobruisk. The doctor reached out through Chabad of Munich, and Rabbi Yochanan Gordon met him and recognized the kesav ashuris. Based on a psak of Hagaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein zt"l, the parchment will be displayed in the shul in Bobruisk beside a Sefer Torah saved from the Nazis ym"s

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