Here is an image of a few pages in the Torah scroll containing both types of spaces, a "pesucha," then a "setuma." Two Exceptions All portions of Torah are filled with numerous such blank spaces.

Police in Israel have reportedly arrested a rabbi suspected of stealing Torah scrolls from the synagogue of his community near Be’er Sheva. Kikar HaShabat, a hebrew-language news site on ...

The alleged theft was discovered on Simchat Torah, on Oct. 8. In many Orthodox and Conservative congregations, this is the only time of year when Torah scrolls are taken out of the ark.

A Torah scroll valued at more than $50,000 has been reunited with its owner following the arrest of the crook who stole it from a Queens yeshiva three months ago, prosecutors said Monday.

The Torah scroll project was initiated by Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, as part of a Week of Goodness effort led by the family to inspire acts ...

A Torah scroll, the most sacred item in Judaism, contains 300,000 letters of the first five books of the Bible. It is written entirely by hand with a feather, black ink on parchment made of animal ...

Torah dedication in Be'eri honors fallen soldier: 'Shilo dances with us today' Members of the Bnei Akiva branch in Sderot raised 200,000 shekels and dedicated a Torah scroll in memory of the ...

Each page of the scroll has 42 lines and there are a total of 304,805 letters in the completed Torah. Advertisement "Even a single missing or misshapen letter invalidates the entire hand-written ...

Because the work is so tedious and precise, it takes a year for a Torah to be completed at a cost of $70,000. A Rabbi can only read from a scroll that has been handwritten, said Steinmetz.

The San Antonio Chabad Lubavitch community’s Orthodox synagogue on the North Side has acquired what’s believed to be the first-ever permanent Sephardic Torah scroll in the city. The holy ...