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About Us
Shalom!

We are the Sofrim On Site - Scribes, Educators and Master Storytellers!
A father and son team - we have found that being a Sofer entails great responsibility. This is a spiritual work as the Torah is everlasting and we answer to a Higher Authority. We enjoy teaching others about the holiness and wonders of what we do.

We have become known as “Sofer On Site”. Instead of congregations sending Torahs to the Sofer, we travel to the Torahs. We regularly visit communities, schools and other organizations across the country. We provide professional STa”M services on location, while sharing the wondrous insights of this tradition with the people we meet. We specialize in repairing, maintaining and supplying Sifrei Torah, Tefillin and Mezuzot, while demonstrating the art of the Sofer and inspiring audiences about the uniqueness of the Hebrew letters.

Over the past 20 years, we have provided STa”M services to communities in Israel, South Africa, South America, the United States and Canada. Together we offer a unique, diverse, educational and professional experience. Our forte is our exceptional ability to relate to Jews of all ages and backgrounds as we have been through the main streams of Judaism ourselves.

The Westminster Czech Memorial Scrolls Trust has accepted Sofer on Site as an authorized Sofer to perform restorations on the precious Czech memorial scrolls located with congregations worldwide. Sofer on Site is also an official “Safe Haven” for the Southeast United States for Czech Memorial Scrolls “in between homes."

One of the most profound experiences a Sofer can provide is a meaningful and inspirational Torah Journey - Project. The Sefer Torah is the prized inheritance of the Jewish people. It moves us, motivates us and unites us as a nation. For 3000 years, we have learned to live our lives through the teachings, guidance and messages of the Torah. We are always searching for new ways to bring ourselves closer to it.

Rabbis Gedaliah and Moshe Druin travel the country as Master scribes, lecturers, educators and storytellers mesmerizing audiences of all ages. They utilize their past educational and personal experiences to provide a distinctive educational platform. They increase and enhance an awareness of the writing and repair of a Sefer Torah as well as the wonders and majestic meanings of the Hebrew letters.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Rabbi Gedaliah Druin rreceived his B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in psychology, sociology and philosophy. He was the science curator and supervisor of education at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. He received his M.A. from The University of Oklahoma in philosophy – the spiritual and ethical development of mankind, and completed his philosophy coursework and dissertation research for his Ph.D. He also taught Philosophy at the Santa Rosa College in California.

In Israel, he managed a farm and later spent seven years learning in various Yeshivot and Kollels. He has been a teacher of Judaism in Israeli, Ashkenaz and Sepharadi traditions in diverse institutions at the elementary, high school and university level. He worked with youth movements and summer camps providing focused informal Jewish education. He returned to the USA to care for aging parents and studied and qualified as a Sofer STa”M.

 

Rabbi Moshe Druin was born in New York and his family made Aliyah when he was six. He has been through the three main streams of Judaism, studying in Yeshivot of diverse affiliations in Israel, and continued with his higher education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was ordained as a Rabbi and Scribe in New York, where he met his wife Ahuva. Together they moved to Johannesburg, South Africa where he served as a Youth Director, Vice-Principal of the Jewish High School and later as pulpit Rabbi. Returning to the United States to reunite with extended family, his Safrut expertise moved to the forefront. Over the past fifteen years Rabbi Druin has served congregations across the country with a more personalized approach, offering expert Torah restoration all ON SITE. It has given him the opportunity to continue as an Educator, lecturer and storyteller as well, bringing the Torah to life in a most personalized manner to excited audiences of all ages, through individual talks, groups, drama and music. Today he is world renowned as one of the premier Torah Project developers, working with communities from Omaha to India on all facets of development, marketing, fundraising and programming. Rabbi Moshe and Ahuva live in North Miami Beach, Florida with their children Esti, Neomi, Benny, Riki, Chumi, Tzivia, Shaina, Batsheva, Mendel and Yossi.

 

Rochel Margolin joined the Sofer on Site staff in 2003 following 10 years of Administration in religious organizations. A former U.S. Air Force radio and television broadcaster stationed in Japan, Greece and Saudi Arabia, she returned to the States in 1992 and began giving her Judaism a lifestyle commitment. She moved to Florida in 1999 to marry the late Rabbi Dovid Bryn, z”l, and became involved in the Miami community. We wish her Mazel Tov on her wedding to Rabbi Chaim Zushe Margolin and subsequent birth of a sister to daughter Devorah Sora. Rochel is also the director of Mitzvahbrick.com.

 


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