How a License Plate Reading TORAH 613 Became an Unexpected Lesson in Jewish Living.

TORAH 613 in the Doctor’s Parking Lot

This week, as I walked through the parking lot of NYU Langone Long Island Hospital in Mineola, something caught my eye.

It wasn’t a flashing light. It wasn’t an expensive luxury car. It was a license plate.

The plate read simply: TORAH 613

I stopped for a moment and smiled.

Think about where this car was parked—not outside a synagogue, not outside a yeshivah, not at a Jewish event.

It was sitting in the parking lot of a hospital. A place where people come seeking healing. A place where doctors fight illness. A place where families pray for good news. A place where life itself hangs in the........

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