MIAMI (AP) - A synagogue in Miami will have a very special addition to its Rosh Hashanah services on Friday.

A 131-year-old Torah that was created in what is now the Czech Republic and survived the Nazi regime has been donated to the Congregation Ahavat Olam.

The holy text was done on a sheepskin scroll completed in 1878, but was put into a warehouse with other Torahs and Judaica after the Nazis came to power. But it was well-preserved and eventually sold by communist leaders to a London synagogue after the war.

Now the Memorial Scrolls Trust is on indefinite loan to the Miami synagogue.

Rabbi Danny Marmorstein uses the Yiddish word "bashert" to describe how the Torah came to his small congregation. He says the word means "meant to be."

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