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Regard, if you will, this photograph of a Torah scroll.


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Sometimes you see letters which look broken, pasul:


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(Repeat of an old post, seasonally relevant)

The original stone tablets were written by the finger of God, etzba Elohim.

Nowadays we write their less cumbersome representations, the Torah-scrolls, with quills, but what most people today don’t know is that ideally you don’t use a quill to write sifrei kodesh.

You’re supposed to use the index finger ( Read more... )

It’s megillah-writing season. So here are some fun pictures from a megillah. A photocopy of a megillah, actually, whose provenance I do not know (other than the obvious “Ashkenaz, Beit Yosef script”).

Students, look and be impressed at the scribe’s creativity, but also take the time to look critically. Notice how you can make a splendid effect ( Read more... )

Go Linda!

Mirrored from hasoferet.com.
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This is interesting. Gives you an insight into how the scribe was forming his letters.


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Something you do not need to see when you open tefillin: BUGS.


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This week’s parasha describes the worship-tent that God commands the Israelites to construct in the wilderness.

Around the tent, they are to construct a courtyard, of panels held between columns.

Perhaps you’ve seen a Torah scroll being unrolled around a sanctuary at Simchat Torah. You’ve seen how it’s long enough to go around the whole room, the ( Read more... )

I’ve been neglecting you a bit, I’m afraid. This is because I’ve been posting regular posts for my current Torah client at their special blog, and I haven’t had energy to do two lots of posts or to set up proper cross-posting. Check out last week’s post A single mistake invalidates the entire sefer Torah (with spiffy new photographs) and then ( Read more... )