Reply To: Borrowing/Loaning a Sefer Torah

@AviK
Your post is interesting, BUT since the sifrei torah are my personal property, a gift from my grandparents who had them written for their business (bungalow colony) in the 1940s, it is not about taking a torah out of a shul.

I have at least 4 or 5 friends who own a sefer torah that passed down in their family. I am the only one of the group who has 2. Others I know have placed them on ‘permanent’ loan to their shuls, so that they are kept in a place of honor, get used and are checked on a regularly scheduled basis. Mine are kept in a large fireproof safe. We have a portable aron kodesh that gets wheeled in place when we plan to hold services here and we can seat the extended family comfortably on Pesach.

The last time the sifrei torah were out of the house was to my eldest nephew’s home for a Monday Bris for his first grandson. We also loaned him the aron kodesh. The silver rimonim, and keter remained here in the safe.