Make your mark in Chabad’s New Torah.
A Torah represents the Jewish people. If even one letter is missing, the whole Torah is not kosher. Now you can have your letter in a special Torah scroll that will live at the Sands Chabad House and be read for generations. Dedicate a letter, a verse, a chapter, or a whole book of the Torah.
A kosher Torah scroll contains 304,805 letters, 79,976 words, and 5,845 verses across the Five Books of Moses.
Every Jew has a letter. Here’s how to claim yours.
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Choose your dedication
A single letter, a verse, a chapter, a weekly portion, or a whole book of the Torah.
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Choose your exact spot
You can choose your own letter, verse, chapter, or portion. Or we can assign you a specific letter inside a meaningful verse and tell you what it means.
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Give & receive your certificate
Dedicate in your name or in honor or memory of loved ones. A certificate arrives by email.
Dedications
Major sponsorships
Give any amount toward the Torah
Not ready for a full dedication? Every dollar writes another letter.
Questions
Right now Chabad of Clinton has just one Torah. A community really needs a second: on many days of the year the service calls for reading from two scrolls, and a second Torah means we are never left short if one needs repair. Your letter helps bring that Torah home to Hamilton College and the Clinton community.
Both are fully kosher and equally holy. A restored scroll is a pre-owned Torah that a scribe carefully checks and repairs so it can be used again, which keeps the cost down. But its parchment and ink are older, so it fades and cracks more easily and needs inspection and repair far more often. A brand-new Torah is written from scratch on fresh parchment, letter by letter, entirely for our community: it is far more reliable, needs repairs far less often, and stays kosher for far longer. It costs significantly more, but it is an investment that serves the community for generations. Our first goal brings home a beautiful restored scroll; our stretch goal lets us commission a brand-new one.
Entirely by hand. A trained scribe (a sofer) writes all 304,805 letters with a quill and special ink on parchment, following laws that are thousands of years old. Every letter must be perfect: if even one is missing or broken, the scroll is not kosher until it is fixed.
Constantly. It is read aloud every Shabbat, on Mondays and Thursdays, on Rosh Chodesh, and on every holiday, as well as at many joyous occasions. That is why having a second scroll matters so much.
The moment you dedicate, you can have our system assign you a specific letter inside a meaningful verse and tell you the verse, its place in the Torah, and what it is about. Or you can choose your own spot, or refresh for a different one.
Yes. Every letter, verse, and portion is one of a kind and is recorded to you the moment you dedicate it, so no one else can be given the same one.
Absolutely. Verses and larger portions can honor several people at once, and each honoree can receive their own certificate by email.
Yes. Chabad at Hamilton Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3). EIN 47-1647905. You will receive a tax receipt by email, and by mail on request.
Yes! We will hold a joyous welcome celebration when the scroll is completed, and every donor will be invited. We will keep you posted as the date gets closer.
As soon as we reach our goal. Every donor is invited to the celebration when the final letters are written.
About your dedication
Terms
This is a charitable donation, not a purchase and not an in-kind transaction. A letter in the Torah can be dedicated at no cost: anyone may receive a letter by contacting Chabad of Clinton directly. The amounts shown are a suggested, customary tzedakah dedication for each letter, verse, or portion. Chabad at Hamilton Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 47-1647905); your gift is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. No goods or services are provided in exchange for your contribution.
Refunds
If you make an error in your dedication, contact us at torah@chabadclinton.com and we'll gladly correct or refund it.
Privacy
We use your information only to process your dedication, send your certificate and tax receipt, and keep you updated about the Torah. We never sell or share it.
Chabad of Clinton, serving Hamilton College and beyond. Be a part of history!
Rabbi Didy & Devorah Waks