Congregation Beth Simchat Torah member Michael Levine was quoted as saying that he becomes overwhelmed with emotion when he carries one of the synagogue’s five Torah scrolls (“CBST Purchases First Home,” July 29).
The Torah does not call eating “treif” an abomination. The Torah does not call the desecration of Shabbat an abomination. The Torah does, however, call the homosexual act an abomination. Do the five Torah scrolls owned by CBST and carried by Levine omit that part of the Torah, or is that part just whited out?
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