A 90th Barmitvah celebration

Tomorrow’s Shabbat HaGadol will be great for 103-year-old Lenny Lipman, who will celebrate his 90th Barmitzah anniversary by reciting the Haftarah in Sydney’s North Shore Synagogue.

Lenny also read the Haftarah on his 87^th Bar Mitzvah anniversary when celebrating his 100^th birthday.

Len was born in South Africa and moved to Australia in 1987. Len has been preparing for this occasion for close to a year with the assistance of The North Shore Synagogue’s senior minister, Rabbi Paul Lewin.

Lenny Lipman told J-Wire: “I feel very blessed and honoured to be able to read my bar mitzvah anniversary haftorah at my age of one hundred and three. I have read many haftorot at various shuls in Australia and in South Africa. I hope I may encourage and inspire others to follow in my footsteps.”

Rabbi Lewin said: “Lenny is an inspiration to our entire community and his celebration this Shabbat, called Shabbat Hagadol, certainly is the correct title for a Shabbat to honour a great man, mensch and a role model to us all.”

After the service, there will be a kiddush in his honour where he will be joined by his two sons, his daughter, their partners, plus his grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.