Hachnosos Sefer Torah Booklet, Paperback Souvenir #256

A printed booklet made for one occasion: the hachnosas sefer Torah itself. It is a paperback, produced to be handed out in quantity to the crowd that comes out to dance and escort the new sefer to the aron kodesh, and it is designed as something people take home rather than leave on a chair at the end of the night.

That is the real use case. A hachnosas sefer Torah draws a wide crowd — family, the shul, the yeshiva, neighbors who walk over when the music starts — and most of them have nothing in their hands. A booklet solves that, and afterwards it stays as the physical reminder of the day, which is more than can be said for most simcha giveaways.

Design #256 also runs on Malchut's siddur covers. For the family making the hachnosah, that opens the option of a matching siddur cover kept for the baal simcha, or given to the sofer, alongside the booklets distributed to everyone else — the same design carried from the giveaway to the piece that stays in the family.

• Malchut design #256

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