Beit Shemesh Can't Wait: Great Expectations for the Big Lottery for the Torah Scroll

Every Beit Shemesh saw it, every Beit Shemesh felt it, every Beit Shemesh is waiting to see who will be the winner.

The special campaign of 'Ezrat Achim', donating to the Beit Shemesh charity organization and entering a huge raffle for a luxurious Torah scroll, is not going away from the agenda.

Since that morning when the city's residents woke up to the colorful and invested campaign, with billboards hung at every major intersection in the city, and helium balloons in the colors of the organization's logo hung, giving the city a festive atmosphere - the issue has not been off the agenda.

In an unprecedented way, city residents are participating in the giant lottery, donating to the Beit Shemesh charity organization, which helps every resident of Beit Shemesh, and entering the lottery for a Torah scroll!

Who will be the lucky winner, everyone asks, and rightly so. After all, it is known that "there is no such thing as a Torah," and if so, whoever wins the Torah scroll is the winner of the biggest and most important prize ever.

In some of the city's synagogues, it was even reported that worshippers formed 'purchasing groups' and bought a very large number of lottery tickets, in order to obtain a Torah scroll for the synagogue. In many cases, these are families who so desperately want to commemorate their parents or loved ones with a Torah scroll, but cannot afford one.

Therefore, the families organized themselves to purchase as many lottery tickets as possible, with the idea being that if they won the Torah scroll, that would be great, and if not, the acts of kindness of 'Ezrat Achim' would be for the upliftment of the soul and the best commemoration.

"The truth is, I saw that it was a raffle for a Torah scroll, and I felt I had to buy a ticket," said Ramat Beit Shemesh resident D., "but when I realized that the proceeds were donated to the charitable organization 'Ezrat Achim,' I tripled my investment. In a raffle like this, it doesn't matter if I win a Torah scroll or not, in the mitzvot of chesed I certainly win, and that's a win I can't pass up."