Every Jewish male is commanded to write a Torah scroll for himself. Today the practice is to fulfill the commandment of ...

Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

Menachem Mendel Korf, 8, was an integral part of the creation of a holy, sacred document. He wrote the Hebrew letter mem in the word “vayomer,” Hebrew for “and he said,” in the third line of a new ...

I pressed Enter. On the screen, it appeared: ”I am a lamp. I give light to others. But I do not shine by myself, for the light of the sun is what gives me life.” They say that after this meeting, ...

A family joins others at the Milken Community High School to ink in a letter of a Torah scroll that was recovered from the Holocaust, remembering Shavuot, when the Torah first was given to the Jewish ...

A Torah scroll written collaboratively by six women was completed in Seattle, marking a first for a group of female scribes, or sofrot. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — It took seven years to write and just a ...

the whole Bible (Old Testament) or even the whole body of the Jewish teaching, written and oral. After the opening words, Miller described the process of writing the Torah. A parchment made from ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Writing Torah is normally reserved for Orthodox Jewish men, but a woman is changing that tradition in a modern twist on ancient Hebrew text. With the start of the Jewish New ...

The Torah is the heart of Judaism and the Jewish community. Writing a Hebrew letter on the parchment can be a unique spiritual experience. In fact, writing a letter of Torah allows a person to fulfill ...

LOS ANGELES — The more than 300-year-old Torah survived the Holocaust, was later rescued from a deserted Jewish temple in Prague and eventually wound up at a Northridge, Calif., synagogue. On Sunday, ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote the first letter, and now Israeli President Isaac Herzog has written the last letter of a Torah scroll of solidarity which is meant to symbolise peace and ...