The whole megillah, possibly stolen
By adamg - 9/23/11 - 10:51 am
Arlington Police recovered two Hebrew scrolls from a guy they say is known to buy stolen property and are now seeking to identify the actual owners.
Belong to a synagogue missing megillas? Contact Inspector Brian Connerney, 781-316-3914.
Via the Jewish-Boston mailing list, where you'll also find a photo of the safe they were found in.
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That guy was a regular
....Meguilla Guerilla!
I hope it gets to its rightful owner.
Torah's are occasionally
Torah's are occasionally stolen because they are rare and super-expensive (something on the order of $40,000 a few years ago for a new one). Each one has to be hand-written by a qualified scribe (and there are very few of those) who has to follow very strict laws. Because each Torah is unique, their are companies that measure certain aspects of each scroll (the length and height of particular characters for instance) and then put them into a database so that if one is every stolen it can be returned to its rightful owner.
Since these megillot are also handwritten they could also be checked against a database like this. I don't know if the owners would have known or bothered to enter them into a database but its possible.
Wait...
You know how to properly pluralize a feminine Hebrew noun, but you don't know how to form a regular plural in English?
Cripes.
English are hard.
English are hard.
Their, their now...
After all, "their are" other ways to direct your enthusiasm, you know.
Yikes and I messed up
Yikes and I messed up their/there too and wrote every instead of ever. I bumped my head this morning and my written grammar has been off all day.
You're niggling,
You're niggling, baby!
(Apologies to LL Cool J)
Expensive
This one looks like it cost at least 100 geese.
How do they know they were
How do they know they were stolen?
Or do the police just take stuff from people like this on speculation?
Hence the "possibly"
However, the safe was among items seized earlier this year after the guy who had it was arrested on drug charges and police searched his pawn shop.