When G-d demanded from the Jews an assurance that they would keep His Torah, they offered their children as guarantors. So it is only fitting that Rabbi Shmuel Greisman is promoting the writing of special Torah scrolls on behalf of the Jewish children.

Since the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of righteous memory, launched this campaign just before Shavuot of 5741 (1981), Rabbi Greisman has successfully completed three Torahs and is working on a fourth one. Each Jewish child is encouraged to purchase his or her own letter in the Torah for the nominal fee of one dollar.

The project's scribe sits in the Tzemach Tzedek synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City, painstakingly inscribing each word in the new scroll. After the letter is purchased, the child is sent a multicolored certificate indicating the portion in which the letter was inscribed.

"The children know exactly where their letter is located in the scroll and this enhances their attachment to the entire Torah," says Rabbi Greisman.

As Shavuot approaches the campaign to sign up children intensifies. Chabad emissaries around the world are increasing their efforts in registering each Jewish child's letter in the Sefer Torah.

"The entire campaign to have Torahs written just for children centers around the notion of Jewish unity," explains Rabbi Greisman.

"Children have a special measure of purity that is unequaled in the world, and when they join together to write these Torah scrolls they increase all the blessings and happiness that is bestowed upon all mankind. As the anniversary of the giving of the Torah approaches, we are reminded that only for the sake of young children did we merit to receive this gift."