Reply To: Borrowing/Loaning a Sefer Torah

@AviK
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For 100+ years J Levine Company in NYC has been in the Judaica business.
For the current fee of $500 you can rent a kosher sefer torah for the weekend (Thursday -Monday)
This is perfect for hotel based Bar Mitzvah or a Shabbaton.

Not all sifrei torah are kept in a designated place. This rental ‘fleet’ travels regularly.
More than 40 years ago when I was in the kosher catering business we would do hotel B’Nai Mitvah or weddings. The patrons would ask us to arrange the sefer torah, siddurim, taleisim, etc.
Back then we could rent the sefer torah and the other items for about $200.
Pesach hotels and resorts and kosher cruises also rent these items if the operator does not own his/her own.

The summer camp I went to made a deal with the camp rabbi….he and his wife got a cabin, his kids attended for free and he had to bring along 2 sifrei torah from his shul for the summer.

My grandfather told me that when he first opened his bungalow colony for the summer of 1946 he rented a sefer torah from J. Levine. After the summer, he commissioned two sifrei torah to be written in memory of cousins killed fighting in WWII in the US armed forces. Those are the sifrei torah I own today.