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, ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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