A Tucson congregation’s 250-year-old Torah scroll was visited by a Jewish scribe this week for restoration. The congregation received Sefer Torah #531 from the Memorial Scrolls Trust of London ...

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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.

As soon as one sets out to study the controversies provoked by the Dead Sea scrolls, one becomes aware of a certain “tension.” “During the past three years,” wrote Dr. Albright in 1951 ...

Within the scroll of the Torah are the words Jews are commanded to live by. In a religion that has no established leader or institution to determine authority, the words themselves are the arbiters.

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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.

Torah scroll written by the families of victims of the October 7 massacre and families of fallen soldiers of the Swords of Iron War placed in the Holy Ark of the Western Wall.

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 ...

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.

Neil Yerman bends close to the parchment with a quill pen in his roughened hands, chanting softly in the natural light streaming through the windows of Temple Emanuel.

The arrival this month of a new Torah scroll in Hudson was greeted with festivities and special letter-writing opportunities. Arthur Eisenberg, Hudson Valley Aerial / Chabad of Columbia County ...