People buy and sell all kinds of things on eBay. Even a Torah scroll.

Now four years after South Beach retiree Mark Shyman made his big purchase, he’ll be dedicating the holy scroll in honor of his late father Seymour Shyman at the Chabad-Lubavitch center directed by Rabbi Shragi and Devorah Leah Mann.

The Sunday afternoon celebration in the heart of Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood will mark the end of a long journey for the Torah, which was acquired from a Tel Aviv synagogue and sold by book dealer Israel Ziegel. Because it was unfit for ritual use, Shyman sent it up to New York for restoration. He sees his action as the completion of his father’s longtime dream to donate a Torah scroll.

In an interview with The Miami Herald, Mann calls the donation evidence of a spiritual rebirth taking place in his part of paradise: “The synagogue is growing and thriving. People are reconnecting.”